Mess^rs Tho^s & Jn^o Clifford Philadelphia Accountants Office October 26, 1797 Gentlemen I have received your letter date the 22^d Inst^t enclosing the 1^st sett of a Bill of exchange drawn by Dennis Burley for one hundred & twenty Dollars & have obtained the warrant for that sum, which I now enclose you agreeably to your request. — I am &^c W. S. Lieu^t Patrick C. Harris Fort Johnston N. C. October 26^th 1799 Sir I have rec^d your letter dated the 7 Inst^t — returning my station of your account, I consider that after Lieu^t the division having received me of the sum of ten hundred Dollars for the Recruiting service, with which you are therein charged. In making a Rental of the ac^ts Public monies, Officers should be particular, as there are generally Vouchers on file in the Office upon which each charge is founded. — your letter has given me much uneasiness & trouble in tracing the circumstances attending these matters and at length I discovered your rec^t for all the money with which you are charged — as the receipt of the money may have slept your memory I enclose you copies of your receipts on file in this Office, with a request that in future more caution may be observed in transactions of this nature — [undecipherable: Your] subsistence account, as well as all army accounts, are settled by the Pay master General, through the Pay master