[M^r Jos: Williams Springfield 7 M^s] Accountants Office April 22^d 1800 Sir I have received your letter of the 17 Inst^t with your accounts for expenditures at the Armory for the Quarter ending 31 March last which will be placed under examination, & you will be informed of the result. upon a cursory view of them I find that instead of crediting the proper accounts of the Warrants of Issue to Sam^l Hodgson's given Attin^r with which you are immediately charged in the Books of this Office, you have given credit for the Sums advanced to you from time to time by him, which is irregular & what you will be careful to guard against in future. My letter of the 18 Inst^t to which I refer would inform you that your acct up to the 1st of fullest Year had been adjusted — Sam H M^r [Samuel Hodgson Esq^r Adj^t G M^l] April 22^d 1800 Sir Thomas Billington has received at this Office advanced for his Secretary a Sum for thirteen hundred & fifty dollars, being the amount of 1000 Dollrs Draft, credited of him at 1^st Jan^y 0^th last, which appears to have been adopted in good order to John Harris Military Store Keeper. You will therefore please to make the necessary entries in the Books of the Department of Military Stores — Sam H M^r