[446] M^r Isaac Miller Collector Charlottesville V. Accountants Office December 18 1799 Sir In settlement of your last account [undecipherable: April?] 3^d 1797 you was informed of a balance which you owed the United States of 172 Dollars. Since then there has been credited to your Debit as follows (viz:) So much paid to [undecipherable] for Staving & care to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by order of hand [undecipherable] Mountain houses . . . 2.25 difference on 39 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] short allowing you one fair settlement . . . . . . 13.0 This sum [undecipherable] for medicine administered to [undecipherable] & Dennis . . 11 — Commissions [undecipherable] @ [undecipherable] 4/ . . . 1.46 Do. 20.11 Leaving a balance against you of $D 172.19 which sum you will please pay to General Carrington Dep[undecipherable] Solo[undecipherable] by him paid to the Treasurer of the United States which when done [undecipherable] inform your account on the books of this Office — [undecipherable] --- M^r John [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Town December 18 1799 Sir By this from the Secretary of War of the [undecipherable] you are furnished with a copy of his letter of instructions to you, dated November 5^th last. [undecipherable] to furnish you with the forms for stating and rendering the accounts therein mentioned — Conceiving that considerable expenditures, must have already been incurred by you in pursuance of said instructions it will be hardly necessary for me at this distant [undecipherable], to furnish you [undecipherable]