[Page 28] Accountants Office March 12, 1800 Willis Smith Esq^r Boston Sir, Your accounts & vouchers for rations [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the armorer of Springfield armory in Oct. Nov. & Dec. 1799, the balance amounting [undecipherable] your statement to [undecipherable] $53.07 have been examined & found correct which sum you will therefore credit [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] Federal dep[undecipherable] upon your granting the necessary [undecipherable] Sam[undecipherable] [undecipherable] James Miller Esq^r March 13^th 1800 By [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable: master?] [undecipherable] Sir In the number of the vouchers presented by you to this Office on the [undecipherable] of the Quarter master General I have detected one, numbered 17, for a payment made in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the Transportation from [undecipherable: Chillicothe?] to Pittsburg, of one barrel, one half [undecipherable], two boxes & one [undecipherable: trunk?], adjudged to [undecipherable] George Shannon [undecipherable] the 10 [undecipherable], wages of [undecipherable] amounting to Thirty two dollars thirty [undecipherable] cents The object of this communication is to be informed whether the articles transported were the property of the public, or that of the Officer; and of the latter, whether any existing regulations in the Quarter Master Department, have governed you in the payment. Sam[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Julius Orne Esq^r March 13 1800 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Esq^r. Sir I have received your letter of the 4 [undecipherable] the contents of which has been communicated to the Secretary of War, with whom it rests to make you the answer required in [undecipherable] of your compensation of [undecipherable] thanks [undecipherable]