Accountants Office November 8^th 1799 [And'y bray Esq^r New York R. I.] Sir I have reciev'd your letter of the 9 Inst^mo accompanied by your accounts as Agent of fortifications up to the 31 Ult^o. which will be placed under examination, with the before recievin the mean time from a cursory view of them I inform that you charge the sum of Detained-pay to Lieut^t Les Phillipps of the Util^s Eng^rs for 3 months Pay agreeable to an order from Major General Hamilton on the following cross of Gen^l Hamiltons instructions to him relative to the embarkation of the Artillerists Company, recruit to West Chester &c^t. In case of difficulty you may apply yourself to And'ew bray the Agent of the War Department: General Hamilton's instructions, however, apply merely to contingencies which might attend the embarkation of the Artillerists Company, I cannot possibly be continue to authorize the pay of an officer Pay. the amount paid by you to Lieut^t Phillipps will therefore be deducted from your account being unauthorized. My instructions to you requiring the forms of exhibiting your accounts to this Office for settlement expressly state that the whole of the Vouchers (meaning all the vouchers belonging to one transaction of acct, that the vouchers belonging to each respectively, advaned) must be numbered in rotation according to the dates of Payment: those numbered accordingly charge that has been allowed to on your part, Several vouchers having the same number would not have appeared in your Acct's just reciev'd. You will please attend to this in future. What you say respecting the means of letting cannon