[499] To the Hon^ble Accountants Office Rich^d D Sprague February 3^d 1800 Sir Honourably you will be pleased to direct as an extract of a ticket taken from the books of my Office for which it may be necessary that the treaser advances be ordered to enable me to enter this amount to the debit of the proper account and to the credit of yours. To which I request your attention— Sam B. P.S. Octob: 5^th 1799 Rich^d D Sprague D^r for 1000 dollars advance for the act of purchase money for [undecipherable] Island in &^c purchase from John [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Gen^l Jackson Esq^r February 10^th 1800 [undecipherable] Postscil— Sir I have received your letter of the 24 Ulto reviewing your acct of expenditures on account of the fortifications erecting for the defence of [undecipherable] in 1799 amounting to four hundred twenty five dollars & 50/100 which being found free of error, this sum will be transmitted to you by the Treasurer of the United States together with the sum of One thousand one hundred thirteen dollars & 00/100, being to refund you what sums paid to [undecipherable] himself for acct of his account of [undecipherable] for repairs made to the Barracks there erecting on both Islands in the Harbor of Boston for both which sums you will please to grant the receipts— Sam B. [undecipherable: initials]