[179] Lieu^t John [undecipherable: Farandes?] Fort [undecipherable: Argyle?] &c Sir Accountants Office July 1, 1800 I have received your letter [undecipherable] the 25^th inclosing your account for expences in attending the Court Martial of Cap^t Blackburn & [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] which I herewith return you in order that you may transmit the [undecipherable] to the Pay master of your Regiment, whose duty it is in the first instance to examine & liquidate all acc^ts relative to his [undecipherable] If [undecipherable] at the [undecipherable] that your [undecipherable] is the [undecipherable] on the list of [undecipherable] — Sam^l [undecipherable] [undecipherable] M^r Derrick [undecipherable: Ames?] Springfield M[undecipherable] July 2^d 1800 Sir — The hurry of business [undecipherable: consequent?] to the removal of the Office to this place has [undecipherable: prevented?] an earlier reply to your letter [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] ulto. [undecipherable] in due course. Your accounts & those of [undecipherable] Williams, which have [undecipherable: refer'd?] to the Treasury [undecipherable] must be referred [undecipherable] as the papers of [undecipherable] Department are not yet [undecipherable: sufficiently?] arranged for the purpose. I am in the mean time unable to [undecipherable] from the books [undecipherable] that the United States has been credited by you under [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] July, [undecipherable] for the remaining [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] an [undecipherable] Sam^l [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]