who has opene an Office, & who has the direction & payment of all Army Acc^ts in the S^t Indiana. Sam^l A^t US. The Secretary of War Accountants Office Sir October 18^th 1799 Since writing to you yesterday in reply to your letter of that date, relative to certain papers filed to be forwarded to this Office by M^r Miller — I find that they were received on the 3^d August 1799 & he was on that same day informed thereof. Sam^l A^t U.S. Henry Blen Esq. October 23^d 1799 Paymaster N.H. Sir I have received your letters dated the 7^th Inst^t and Septr last inclosed was called the 1^st left with & by the hands of M^r Beard with the fourth of Accounts & vouchers accompanying it. Satisfied applying to the latter will I had in some measure arranged the Accounts so as to know the nature of your expenditures, & the documents upon which you made your payments. But tho so much time has elapsed since receiving them, I have not been able to make any kind of arrangement of them, so as to prove satisfactory the vouchers are such a confused mass of incomprehensible pieces, so many requisite wanting to make them complete for settlement, such extravagant charges upon such slight evidence of the debt that I really despair of ever making any thing of them. I shall however continue to [undecipherable] the