[406] M^r Rob^t Howe Contractor Wilmington N: C^o? Accountants Office Novem^r 2^d 1799 Sir Your accounts &vouchers for supplies to the mil: & eng^r & stationed at Post Johnston in July, Aug^t 1799 have been examined & the sum of D^lls 34. 93½ deducted therefrom for causes mentioned in the annexed statement. The balance in your favor is of course reduced to 636 doll^s 62 ¢s which sum you will receive from Griffith & M^cRea upon your granting them the necessary rec^t. In making out your future Abstracts it will be necessary for you to be more particular in expressing the several Items composing the vouchers to which you may refer. Sam Hi[?] P.S. The above is given in positive reply to the request of your letter [undecipherable] &[undecipherable] in future I have to desire that the amount of your reciepings is invariably made to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Griffith & M^cRea Wilmington N^o C^a November 8 1799 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of D^lls 636. 62½ to be by you paid to Rob^t Howe Contractor (being a balance due him for his supplies to the mil: & eng^rs at Port Johnston in July & Aug^t 1799) upon his granting you the necessary rec^t. and of which you will please transmit to this Office — Sam Hy[?] P.S. The sum of 34. 93½ deducted in the acct of Rob^t Howe as will appear you will be passed to your book-collection of this Office —