Francis Mentges C^o City of Fortifications Sir [Accountants Office August 11 1800] Your account & voucts of expenditures on account of the Fortifications at Mud Island from the 1^st April to the 9 Aug^st 1800 have been examined & the sum of six thousand one hundred eighty five dollars & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to your credit on the Books of this Office; leaving a balance due The United States of six thousand five hundred thirty seven Dollars & 7/100 & differs from your Statement 331. — which is accounted for as follows. viz/. — This sum being amount of vouchers 8.17.24. paid to Saint George & Carmichael for extra service as [payment] of Artificers & Labourers &^c suspended until you shew by what authority it was paid . . . . . . . . . $22. — from which deduct this sum being an error in the addition of D^r B.S. short charged by you — $31. — Sam H^o H.S. --- John Wilsons Trin^y 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 under the 1^st Inst accompanied by the abstracts & vouchers there enumerated — They will be placed on file with those before received to be examined in course — Sam H^o H.S.