[Docket on cover:] [June 2 War Department William Simmons by Accountant] [Corner annotation on cover: Mr. [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] June 1800 / [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] 30 / [undecipherable] by] War Department 2. June 1800. Sir, [strikethrough: undecipherable text] The President having directed that the Public Offices attached to the Seat of Government, Shall be removed from Philadelphia, [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] at the City of Washington by the 15^th inst. I have the honor to request that you will [undecipherable] the affairs of your Office, as to [undecipherable] the books & papers in the Waggons which will be provided by the Purveyor, on Saturday, or Monday next — The Office Furniture will be sent [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] to be, provided by the Pu-reyor, & which will be ready to [undecipherable] about Thursday. These [undecipherable] will also take the Furniture of the [undecipherable] attached to your Office. It will be proper that the Gent[undecipherable] in your Office [undecipherable] [undecipherable] amount of salaries due them to the 1^st June. — & that such further sums Shall be advanced as the particular Situation of each Individual may require, to enable him to move himself, & family, where he has a family, to Washington. Will you be pleased to furnish the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that may be necessary for this purpose. [undecipherable] I have the honor to be Sir your most [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]