Miller Smith &co Boston Sir Your accounts & vouchers for returns of[?] first to the armament of Springfield armoury in Oct Nov & Dec 1799, the balance amounting of your statement to [undecipherable] #13.99 have been examined & found correct which sum you will therefore await from the federal dep^t upon your granting the necessary [undecipherable] — Sam H [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Accountants Office March 12, 1800] James Miller Esq^r. March 13^th 1800 By [undecipherable] of the Quarter m^r int [undecipherable] Sir In the number of the vouchers presented by you to this Office on the part of the Quarter master General I have deducted one, numbered 17, for a payment made to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the transportation from Phila^a to Pittsburg, of one barrel, one half [undecipherable], two boxes & one Trunk, alledged to [undecipherable] being [undecipherable] of the 10 dol^r ways[?] 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 Officers and of the latter, whether any existing regulations in the quarter Master Department, have governed you in the payment. Sam H [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Julius [undecipherable] Esq^r. March 13 1800 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Sir I have received your letter of the 4 Inst^t, the contents of which has been communicated to the Secretary of War with whom it rests to make you the answer required in account of your compensation [undecipherable] his thanks [undecipherable]