[65] Caleb Swan Esq^r [undecipherable] Sir Accountants Office April 6^th 1800 Yours noted the 10^th last month, was only received accompanied by the Abstract of your payments & vouchers thereto attached — their examination as early as possible will be taken up, & the result thereupon will be communicated to you— Sam^l W. M^r [undecipherable] The Sec^y of War Accountants Office April 1^st 1800 Sir Agreeably to the act to regulate & fix the compensation of Clerks I herewith hand you a list of the Clerks employed in my office, and request that you will affix [undecipherable] the whole each shall be intitled to for the present year; Peter Wagner, [undecipherable] Copying Clerk. Robert Ellis, [undecipherable] Clerk [undecipherable] John Broom, employed in examining and settling accounts [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] employed in examining [undecipherable] accounts [undecipherable] John Abbott .... Ditto Tho^s [undecipherable] .... Ditto John G Walton ... Ditto [undecipherable] Brady ... D:to James [undecipherable] ... D:to James [undecipherable], Copying Clerk It will readily be known from the nature of the duties affixed to this office that their employees therein to be [undecipherable] must be of [undecipherable] abilities & such as have been regularly bred to the business of accounts — while being new employed they naturally [undecipherable]