Edward Carrington Esq Dep^t Richmond V^r Accountants Office April 30^th 1800 Sir I receivd your letter dated the 24^th Inst^t enclosing the receipt of [undecipherable] Nicholson (administrator to the Estate of William Nicholson deceased) for fifty four dollars & [undecipherable] in answer a blank, cover your last act for commission for [undecipherable] of paying monies from this Department to the 31^st Dec^r 1799, which will be entered on the Books of this Office — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] James Miller Esq^t April 30^th 1800 Ag^t WMS Sir I have received your letter of this day. Where your acc^ts to be examined, as you derive out of the general course, it would be impossible to make any partial examination of or decision on them. As to the acc^ts particularly alluded to in your letter they as well as all others must be settled & adjusted conformally to the allowances authorized by law or the established principles & regulations of the War Department — [undecipherable] M^r James Greenway April 30^th 1800 [undecipherable: Annanborough?] N.C. Sir Your accounts for Supplies furnished the 6 Reg^t of Infantry at [undecipherable] in the months of Jan^y & Feb^y 1800 amounting [by?] your statement to [undecipherable] hundred & eighty [undecipherable] dollars & [undecipherable] have been submitted at this office for settlement by [undecipherable] Store [undecipherable] — upon examination I find you have short charged [undecipherable]