perth inventions relative to the mode of keeping your accounts, and as to what regards the forms of rendering them to this [office] for settlement. it is necessary in order to advise on the matter, that I should be informed of the particular items for which these accounts are requisite. 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] Hatfield J McKinley? Wilmington N.C.? Sir Accountants Office December 13 1799 I have received your letter of the 10 inst— with the accounts & vouchers inclosed. They will be placed under examination & you will be informed of the result— Sam [undecipherable] Treas^t Office December 16^th 1799 Sir In conformity with your letter of the 8^th & its Instruction I have raised an account and note made of the amount [undecipherable] of the annual expenditures made at the armory at Springfield [undecipherable] from & after the passing of the act of Congress of the 2^d April 1794 to the [undecipherable] October 1799 & now submit you the exhibit thereof, agreeably to your request— Sam^l [undecipherable] [See the exhibit abovementioned on the next sig—]