Amount of Warrants Requested
Document 1800Request for amounts of Warrants issued under Head of Fortifications of Ports and Harbors rendered by Simmons.
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the sum, of three dollars & [undecipherable] on the balance, which arises in consequence of an error being made, in the addition of the[undecipherable] balance obtained; this [undecipherable] added to your own statement makes the amount due you to be [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] to You, which has been paid to [undecipherable] your attorney—
Should you take the [undecipherable] advance for the current Year, you will desire to send all your future accounts direct to this Office, where they will be duly [undecipherable] for; if any [undecipherable] on their Statement the money will be transmitted by the Treasurer of the [undecipherable] States to [undecipherable] of M'[undecipherable] to be by him paid to you
[undecipherable valediction and signature]
James M'Henry Esq. Pensylvania Office
Sec'y of War April 30, 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 [undecipherable] under the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Debt & balance to the amount thereof, from this date to the present day is Sixty one thousand two hundred seventy one dollars & Seventy one Cents—
[undecipherable signature]
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Arch'd Cravy Esq. May 1 1800
New York N.Y.
Sir,
I have received your letter of the 22 & 23 [undecipherable] with the Vouchers therein mentioned except [undecipherable] 40 being the last [undecipherable] on your [undecipherable] it is for payment to [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] on the forfeitures amounting to [undecipherable], which has not been [undecipherable] to me which I require your account—
[undecipherable signature]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Request for amounts of Warrants issued under Head of Fortifications of Ports and Harbors rendered by Simmons.
Date
04/30/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800043021655
Page start
122
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
head of fortifications of ports and harbors
secretary of war
Notable locations
Accountant's Office
Notable items
warrants
books

