[210] Major Gen. Jackson Accountants Office New York, &c. July 31 1800 Sir I have received your letter of the 30^th inst' also your account for forage [undecipherable] [undecipherable] thereof after [undecipherable] By a General order dated the 10 May 1800 it has been [undecipherable] the duty of the Pay master of the different Regiments to [undecipherable] first instance to receive all claims which the Officers of their respective Regiments may have against the United States for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Pay master General— as therefore this your account may pursue the course / pointed out by the instructions to the Pay master, I herewith return it to you — [undecipherable: signature] Noel C. Henry Esq. July 31 1800 New York, Ri S. Sir Your accounts of expenditures on account of the Fortifications at New York &c from the 1^st [undecipherable] December 1799 to the 17 June [undecipherable] have been examined [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of Seven thousand five hundred ninety five dollars & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to your credit on the books of this office [undecipherable] I believe that the United States & $1102. [undecipherable] and differ from your statement — [undecipherable] which is accounted for as follows viz. To this fund paid to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on account [undecipherable] as an advance — $600.— — d^o [undecipherable] G. Feldman [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], &c No 9.10.11. &c [undecipherable] [undecipherable] until further examined — $— — [undecipherable] arising on your having charged your [undecipherable]