[174] the removal of the Office from Newark, to this place prevented my acknowledging the receipt of your letter upon. Sam B W[undecipherable] John Kelly Esq^r Accountants Office Baltimore City of Washington June [undecipherable] Sir I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 9^th Inst. enclosing the receipt of Jo[undecipherable] Towner for two hundred & eight dollars & [undecipherable] which from sums has entered to your credit on the Books of this Office Sam I[undecipherable] [undecipherable] M^r Colt Grant June 26^th 1800 J. Wilmington N.C. Sir I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 22^d Ulto which the removal of the Office from Philadelphia prevented me from doing before. As early as the Books & papers of the office are properly arranged your accounts will be taken up for examination in course & this result will be duly communicated. Sam I[undecipherable] [undecipherable] The Hon^ble Joⁿ Clayton June 26 1800 Elizabethtown N. J. Sir A[s] Dunmore being absent it is my duty to acknowledge the rect of your letter dated the 6^th Inst. and had not the removal of the Office prevented it I should have striven to do so this — I have written to M^r Elias A Dayton