[45] M^r Clerk & Tucker Carlisle Penna Sir Accountants Office April 19^th 1800 The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Five hundred Dollars, this same being an advance made by the Secretary of War, on account of money expended for the public buildings at Carlisle — for which sum you will please to furnish your duplicate receipts. Sam^l [undecipherable] Colo. Carrington Esq^r [undecipherable] Richmond Va Sir April 19 1800 I receive your letter of the 12 Inst^t enclosing the receipt of John T. [undecipherable] administrator to the Estate of [undecipherable] Westward deceased, for four thousand four hundred seventy and [undecipherable] dollars, which will be entered on the Books of this Office— Sam^l [undecipherable] Jon. Jackson Esq^r [undecipherable] West [undecipherable] April 19^th 1800— Referring to my letter of the 16^th & 12 Inst., I have now to inform you that your accts for expenditures on account of the Fortifications on [undecipherable] little have been examined [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] account the Sum of [undecipherable] 1481 [undecipherable] the amount thereof, is placed to your credit on the Books of this Office; leaving a balance due by you to the United States (including the sum of three [undecipherable] amount of sundry Warrants drawn to you since the 1^st Instant [undecipherable]) of fourteen thousand five hundred forty one dollars, seventy nine cents — To preserve uniformity, it is desirable that the balance