those filled at the Treasury — I could therefore wish that you would transmit to me for my information a General Acco^t Current in as particular manner as you can, from the documents in your possession stating the balance due to you on the 1^st day of the present quarter, this will greatly facilitate the settlement of your account and the balance will shortly after be transmitted to you — Sam V^e [underline: W.S.] Joseph Williams Eq^re Pay master & Store Keeper Springfield Mass^re Accountants' Office August 5^t 1800 Sir Your account & receipts for expenditures at the Armoury at Springfield Massachusetts for the quarter ending 30 June last have been examined & a balance found in your hands agreeably to your own statement of D^rs 142[undecipherable] To which has been added the following Sums Viz^t — This sum being the amount of Warrant N^o 5133 issued subsequent to the date of your account ......1600.— D^o amo^t of d^o N^o 5158 .. d^o ..... d^o .......... 5700.— —— 7300 S—. 8721. Leaving the above sum of Eight thousand seven hundred & twenty one dollars & ⁷¹/₁₀₀ due from you to the United States which will be carried to your debit on next account — Sam &c [underline: W.S.] M^r John G M^cWhorter late Lieu^t & P.M. 11 Reg^t New York August 6^th 1800 Sir I have received your letter dated the 2^d Ins^t inclosing the copy of an account for services rendered by Sanner Slaughter — As no precedent has been established which will govern in the case, I am of opinion that the account had better remain suspended until I have an opportunity of examining your acct^s as Pay Master of the 11^th Reg^t, when perhaps I shall be better able to judge of its propriety, and another reason for its suspension will be a wish I have that all the accounts of the Regiment should be included in a General Settlement & to avoid as much as possible all Personal settlements — Sam V^e [underline: W.S.] M^r Sam^l Hughes Havre de Grace, Maryland Accountants' Office August 7^th 1800 Sir A large sum of money standing to the debit of your account, on the Books of my Office, on account of Contract of Iron Cannons to be furnished by you in behalf of the Cecil Company, and the period for delivering them, having elapsed since the 1 May last, it is my duty to call on you for a settlement of your account agreeably to the terms of the said contract. I have accordingly to request that you will without delay communicate to me the situation of your acct^o & furnish a Statement of the monies received, and the amount of the Cannon delivered — Sam &c [underline: W.S.] Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^re Superintendent of M.S. August 7^th 1800 Sir Annexed you have an abstract of articles purchased by Michael Trunkle, Contractor for the use of the Troops in the State of Pennsylv^a in the Year 1799, amounting to D^rs 342. 31. for which he has obtained a credit on the Books of this Office you will therefore please make the necessary entries on the Books