[219] Frances Mentges Esq^r C^omt of Fortifications Sir Accountants Office August 11 1800 Your account & receipts of expenditures on account of the Fortifications at Mud Island from the 25 April to the 9 Aug.^t 1800 have been examined & the fund of six thousand one hundred eighty five Dollars & [undecipherable] to your credit on the Books of this Office, leaving a balance due The United States of six thousand five hundred thirty [undecipherable] Dollars & [undecipherable] & differs from your Statement $21.— which is accounted for as follows. viz/ This sum being amount of vouchers [undecipherable] paid to [undecipherable] George [undecipherable] Carmichael for extra services as payment of Artificers & Labourers &^c suspended until you shew by what authority it was paid ............ $22.— from which deduct this [undecipherable] being an error in the addition of D^r [undecipherable] short charged by you ........ $1.— Sam [undecipherable] H.S. [marginalia, left margin: [undecipherable] answers relative to [undecipherable] Mentges [undecipherable]] John Wilkins Jun.^r Pittsburg— Sir August 9.^th 1800 In the absence of M.^r Simmons I do myself the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt of your letter [undecipherable] the 1.^st [undecipherable] accompanied by the abstracts & vouchers thereunto mentioned— They will be placed on file with those before received to be examined in course— Sam [undecipherable] H.S.