[494] Edward Carrington Esq^r Accountants Office Jno. Richmond V^r Richmond V^r 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 [undecipherable] on receiving & paying monies from this Department from [undecipherable] to 31 Decemb^r [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 paid, & you will accordingly receive that sum from the Treasurer of the United States, on forwarding the usual receipt — I am &c [initials] Griffin & Mitchell Esq^rs January 29^th 1800 Baltimore, Wilmington & N.C. [undecipherable] Sir I have received your letter of the 1 Inst^t with the accounts therein mentioned which will be placed under examination & you will be informed of the result. The balance found due to you thereon will be transmitted agreeably to your request — I am &c [initials] M^r Cleon Mitchel January 30, 1800 late of Prince George's Maryland Fredericktown Sir Your account remains open on the Books of this Office and continues charged with the balance remaining due by you as Pay master to [undecipherable] M^r [undecipherable] instead [undecipherable] the late [undecipherable] Expedition after crediting you with the [undecipherable] paid by M^r [undecipherable] as follows Viz —