who has open'd an Office, & who has the direction &d payment of all Army Acc^ts in the S^t of Indiana Sam^l A^t U.S. The Secretary of War Accountants Office Sir October 16^th 1799 I was writing to you yesterday in reply to your letter of the last relation 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 Flemming October 23^d 1799 Storekeeper &c N.W. Sir I have received your letter dated the 7^th Inst^t and have also daily received thro' called the 1 left side by the hands of M^r Baird with the Bundles of Accounts & vouchers accompanying it. Satisfied solicitous to the latter was 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 accounts wanting to make them complete for [undecipherable] 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