poth [undecipherable: questions] relative to the mode of keeping your accounts, and as to what regards the forms of rendering them to this [undecipherable] for settlement. it is necessary in order to advise on this [undecipherable: nature], that I should be informed of the particular items for which those accounts are required. you are accordingly required to make me acquainted therewith, & the instructions necessary will then be forwarded— I take this occasion to observe that as the expenditures were to be made under the direction of Captain Wadsworth, it will be proper that they should be approved of, & the vouchers certified to that effect by him— Sam^l [undecipherable] Enfield & McKinley
Wilmington [undecipherable] Accountants Office
December 15 1799 Sir I have received your letter of the 10 [undecipherable: inst] with the accounts & vouchers inclosed. they will be placed under examination & you will be informed of the result— [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] Office December 16^th 1799 Sir In conformity with your letter of the 8^th & 14 [undecipherable] I have made an examination into the amount [undecipherable: stated] of the annual expenditures made at the [undecipherable: armory] at Springfield from & after the passing of the act of Congress of the 2^d April 1794, to the 1 October 1799; & have below given the exhibit thereof, agreeable to your request— [undecipherable] [In the exhibit abovementioned on the next [undecipherable: sig]]