[212] suspended, until the accounts which you mentions to have been sent to the Secretary of War have been rec'd at this Office; applications has been made to the Secretary for those acc'ts — some time they had been returned to you as more proper to be sent direct to this Office — Sam P [W] Phunger Hawes Esq — Accountant Office Ny War Dep^t February 8^th 1800 New York Sir I have received your letter of the 7^th Inst & have noted its contents — As respects an allowance for blanks here, how to be governed by directions from the Secretary of War of [undecipherable] on the subject — I beg advising you with some remarks — I request that the abstracts required may be sent without delay, to enable me to decide on this case — Until the information required in my letter of the 29^th last is furnished I cannot say any thing further on the subject of the Clothing — Sam P [W] Capt. John Ellery February 11^th 1800 New Port Rh Id Sir I have rec'd your letter dated 31 Jan^y by which I presume you have not rec'd mine of the 24^th — in reply to yours of the 8 Inst & also a duplicate thereof — I transmit to you — Sam P [W]