At the time of the close of James O'Hara's resignation, acting as Quarter Master General of the Army of the United States, it was thought proper in Balancing the respective accounts to charge him with the amount of [underline: all] Bills drawn by his Deputies, respectively, anterior to that period, which at length was finally agreed on to be the 1^st July 1796; and [underline: all] Bills of subsequent date drawn by the said Deputies was [underline: presumed] chargeable to his Successor, John Wilkins Jun^r.) — In this instance it appears we have erred; for by the tenure of M^r John Wilkins' Letter, dated 27 April, 1799, those Bills drawn by Dan^l. Haragan subsequent from the 1^st July 1796 numbering from 1 to 11, [underline: only] is chargeable to him, the first number of which is dated the 30. October, 1796; and [underline: all] Bills drawn by Daniel Haragan anterior to that (30. October, 1796) must be charged to his Predecessor, being five in number, and amounts 2,070 Dollars — According to the usual mode in which business is done in General, this could not have been premeditated. John McC[e]llan's Bill on the Secretary of War, [undecipherable] 1^st. 1797, for 95 Dollars, and paid by Col. Hoagden on th 8 March 1798 — was at the time of entry considered a proper charge, as John Wilkins as McC[e]llan styled himself D. J. M. and was presumed he would send on Vouchers for expenditures to the amount, either to G. M. or John Wilkins —