[406] M^r Rob^t Howe Contractor Wilmington N: C:? Accountants Office Novem^r 2^d 1799 Sir Your accounts & vouchers for supplies to the mill & Eng^r d stationed at Fort Johnston in July Aug^t 1799 have been examined & the sum of D^rs 34.93½ deducted therefrom for causes mentioned in the annexed statement. the balance on your favor is of a sum reduced to 636 doll^s 62½ cents which sum you will receive from Griffith & McKee upon your granting them the receipting rect. For making out your future abstracts it will be necessary for you to be more particular in expressing the several Items composing the vouchers herewith you may refer. Sam Hio P.S. To show upon receipt the report of [undecipherable] from terms, or terms, I have to show that the account of these things is encumbered with to [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]. Griffith & McKee Wilmington N:C. November 2 1799 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of D^rs 636 62½ cents to be paid to Rob^t Howe Contractor (being a balance due him for his supplies to the mill & Eng^rs at Fort Johnston in July &/& Aug^t 1799) upon his granting you the receipting rect, and which you will please transmit to this Office — Sam H^o [undecipherable] P.S. The sum of 700.46 credited in the acc^t of Rob^t Howe as rec^d from you will be placed to your debit on the books of this office