[75] Accountant's Office April 19^th 1800 M^r Clerk & Tucker Carlisle Penns[y] Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of [undecipherable] Hundred Dollars, this some being an advance made by The Secretary of War, on account of making repairs for the public buildings at Carlisle. for which [find?] you will please to forward your duplicate receipts. Sam[undecipherable] --- Cow D. Carrington Esq^r Agt Richmond Va Sir April 19 1800 I receive your letter of the 12 [inst?] enclosing the receipts of John J. West[undecipherable] administrator to the Estate of [undecipherable] West[undecipherable] for [undecipherable] four hundred seventy one dollars & [undecipherable], which will be entered on the Books of this Office. Sam[undecipherable] --- Jon. Jackson Esq^r Agt West [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Sir April 19^th 1800 — Referring to my letter of the 16^th & 12 [inst?], I have now to inform you that your acts for expenditures on account of the Fortifications on [undecipherable] little have been examined [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] the Sum of [undecipherable] 1800 & the amount thereof, is [undecipherable] to your credit on the Books of this Office, leaving [undecipherable] balance due by you to the United States, (including the sum of three [undecipherable] amount of [undecipherable] Warrants forwarded to you since the 1^st Instant[undecipherable]) of fourteen thousand five hundred forty one dollars, sixty five [undecipherable]. To preserve uniformity, it is desirable that the balance