[454] Capt. Sam^l Adams Fort Jay near New York Sir I have received your letter of the 8^th Instant, enclosing a receipt for the hire of a fifer which will be [undecipherable] subject to an examination when you forward your [undecipherable] account for settlement this I wish may be done as soon as possible in order that I may be enabled finally to close your account on the Books of this Office the balance transferred to the Pay master General for settlement — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Meur & [undecipherable] Esq^r [undecipherable] Court N.Y[undecipherable] Sir You Stand charged on the Books of this Office with the amount of a warrant from the 1^st March last for [undecipherable] $[undecipherable] on account of M^r [undecipherable] for rent of [undecipherable] managers employed by the United States at [undecipherable] previous to your being substituted [undecipherable] it is necessary that you transmit to this Office the receipt of M^r [undecipherable] which I request may be done as early as convenient [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Capt. James Wells Fort Jay near New York Sir I have received your letter dated the 20 Inst making likewise a receipt of hire thereof which I return, You [undecipherable] as proper now to be revised and adjusted by the Pay master General to him you will forward them with all other accounts of [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Accountants Office December 20 1799] [December 20 1799] [December 27^th 1799]