M^r William Dayton Elizabethtown N^o 5 Accountants Office January 21 1800 Sir Enclosed is an account for balance of [undecipherable] due by Major [undecipherable] & his two aids which was presented to this Office for settlement, but for the want of your account & vouchers an examination could not take place. I have to request that you will examine the account & return it to me as soon as possible with your observations, that I may be enabled to judge of the balance claimed by them from the United States. Your delay in not forwarding the account & vouchers of your agency on that expedition is attended with great difficulty & causes the claimants to complain of being kept from their just demands for such a lengthy of time, that I cannot refuse making partial settlements where the same is practicable — [undecipherable] [undecipherable]