[360] It is proper to acquaint you that the accounts of the contractor must in future be rendered by himself direct to this Office for settlement. I will therefore be necessary that you furnish me with a copy of the Contract upon which M^r Gordon now serves — Sam H^o [undecipherable] Sam^l Rogers, Esq^r Commissary's Office Dep^t of [undecipherable] December 24 1799 Sir [undecipherable: probable reading] Craig Esq^r Agent of Fortifications at New York, [undecipherable] has received a credit at this Office for articles furnished Negro hired [undecipherable], employed as laborers amounting probably to the enclosed abstract to two hundred forty six Dollars 77/100, for which you will be pleased to cause [the] requisite entries to be made on the Books of the Superintendent of Military Forces — Sam H^o [undecipherable] Fred^k Huntington Esq^r December 23 1799 Collector of [undecipherable] Sir I sent your letter dated the 8^th October & the 23^d [undecipherable] with their enclosures — when the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] stores which accompanied you are to receive on advances made to Contractors, your accounts will be placed under examination & the result communicated to you. Sam H^o [undecipherable]