[122.] the sum of three dollars & ⁷/100 on the rations, which arises in consequence of an error being made, in the addition of the Rations abstracts, + this sum added to your own statement makes the amount due you to be Thirteen hundreds & eighty five dollars & ⁷/100, which has been paid to Wm B. Grover Esq. your attorney. Should you take the permanent Contract for this current Year, you will observe to send all your future accounts direct to this Office, where they will be duly Rec^d free of any Postage and on their settlement the money will be transmitted by the Treasurer of the U. States to Griffith & McKee to be by him paid to you I am &c W.S. James Mc Henry Esq. Accountants Office Sec^y of War April 30^th 1800 Sir Agreeably to the request contained in your letter of this date I have caused to be selected, from the Books of my office the amount of Warrants issued under the Head of Fortifications of Ports & Harbors & the amount thereof, from the 1 Oct^r to the present day, is sixty seven thousand two hundred seventy nine dollars & twenty one Cents — I am &c W.S. Arch. C. Crary Esq. May 1^st 1800 New Port, R.I. Sir I have received your letters of the 22^d & 23 Inst: with the Vouchers therein mentioned except N^o 40, being the last item in your Acc^t & is for payment to A. Sodder for labor done on the Fortifications amounting to $ 19.50, which has not been forwarded & to which I request your attention — I am &c W.S. [Duplicates forwarded 10 July —]