Accountants Office April 14^th 1800 Lew^is J. Payton Wdington 25 Sir I duly received your letter dated the 25 February and 7^th Instant, referring you to what I wrote you on the 15 Feb: last. I can only say in addition that for any arrearages of Subsistance due you it is necessary that you should state an account thereof — Shewing the period, the places where Stationed— the number of Rations & amount due— an account thus Stated & Attested to, by you, before a magistrate & and forwarded to this office, will after examination be paid Sam^l W^s The Secretary of War Sir April 14^th 1800 Lette Frances Montjoy has exhibited an account charging compensation as Inspector of Troop [undecipherable] of the United States, from the 1 Dec: 1799, to the 1 April [undecipherable] at the rate of two Dollars p day under an appointment from the War department the 10 July 1799, from which period, up to the time now charged, he has been paid at the rate fixed in the appointment: in addition to other allowances by his accounts having been sanctioned & admitted by the Secretary of War, I have [undecipherable] thro that will authorize the allowing of his account, but if the Secretary of War should still be of opinion that Lette Montjoy's pay can be continued for the time charged, since [his?] appointment he will be pleased to signify it by letter that I may examine & report accordingly — Sam W^s