[Page number: 100] [Header notation: Hon^ble Th^o Sumpter &c^a in Congress] Accountants Office April 24 1800 [To] In consequence of your application for sundry claims which some agents in this office by you, a search has been made and many appear to have been filld or returnd, it will be necessary in order effectually to comply with your request that I should be furnished with a list of such as you may yet want of those which have been omitted by you ¬ stiled — Sam^l P^o [initials] The Secretary of War April 24^th 1800 Sir Agreeably to your directions on the 22 inst^t M^r Murtrie was immediately called upon for his further information on account of the Fortifications at Mud Island. I have now to inform you that he has accordingly renderd his accounts & vouchers for expenditures up to the present day, which have been examined the sum of D[olls] 68[?] [undecipherable] places to his credit, leaving a balance still due by him & the U.S. of Two thousand eight hundred twenty four Dollars & [undecipherable], and that I shall therefore want your further direction before the Warrant [undecipherable] on the 22 inst for 1000 Dollars in his favor as an advance, ruins this office — Sam^l P^o [initials]