[494] Edward Carrington Esq^r Accounts Office Jef. Richmond V. July 29^th 1800 Sir I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17^th enclosing a statement of your account for commissions on receiving & paying monies from this Department from [undecipherable] to 31 December [undecipherable], payment made for postage amounting to M^r Davis amounting to One hundred seventy one Dollars & [undecipherable] which sum after examination has been ascertained to be correctly due, & you will accordingly receive that sum from the Treasurer of the United States, on forwarding the usual receipt — I am &c W.L. Griffin & Mitchell Esq^r January 29 1800 Baltimore Wilmington N.C. Sir I have received your letter of the 1 Inst. with the accounts therein mentioned which will be plac'd under examination & you will be informed of the result. The balance found due to you therein, will be transmitted agreeably to your request I am &c W.L. M^r Alner Mitchell January 30 1800 near Denton, Maryland Fredericktown — Sir Your account remains open on the Books of this Office and continues charged with the balance remaining due by you as By master [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Maryland militia on the late Western Expedition after crediting you with the [undecipherable] paid by M^r Davis as follows Viz^t. —