[885] charge not for a Payment in full can be amended— I have only to add that when payment is made to a person who cannot write his name it must be attest'd by some respectable witness — Sam H^o [N.S.] Note Duplicate of this letter with a list of the Instruments have been forwarded to your agent on the Mississippi which are to govern him untill he receives regular Instructions from you The Agent or Deputy Accountants Office Quarter Master Gen. November 21 1799 on the Mississippi Sir At the request of the Secretary of War I have enclos'd a Duplicate of my letter of Instructions to the Quarter Master General with the forms therein referr'd to in relation to render[ing] the forms of keeping his accounts, or expenditures on account of certain fortifications & Barracks, [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] Heights by directions of Brigadier Gen. Wilkinson. You are hereby authorized to be governed by the same till you receive Instructions regularly from your Principal— Sam H^o N.S. P. Swain Esq. November 23 1799 [undecipherable] Sir I [undecipherable] you herewith a statement of the monies owing to the debit of M^r [undecipherable] [undecipherable] temporary additional [undecipherable] in the army of the United States [from the Books of this Office] amounting to [undecipherable] dollars, which sum is to be accounted for on [settlement?] of his Pay &c at your office & of which he has been informed— Sam H^o