[221] Rufus Graves &c &c — to the care of McKin[undecipherable] M^r &c &c near Northampton Mas. Accountants Office August 12^th 1800 Sir I received this day yours of the 18 ult. enclosing your accounts of monies disbursed on account of the [undecipherable] Reg^t which will be placed under examination & the result duly communicated to you — Sam [undecipherable] M^r John Pollard Pittsfield[undecipherable: probable reading Pittsfield] August 12^th 1800 Sir The accountant of the War Department being absent it has become my duty to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 2^d inst: with the [undecipherable] — the contents thereof being of a nature which comes immediately under the notice of M^r [undecipherable] & requires his decision I shall lay the letter before him on his return and a communication will be made to you of the result of his examination — Sam [undecipherable] Mary Clarkson Schenectady N: York August 12, 1800 Sir Your letter dated the 20^th [undecipherable] I have [undecipherable] in the absence of M^r [undecipherable] and in reply thereto have to observe that the sum [undecipherable] here as I showed to you personally was [undecipherable] to be gotten without [undecipherable] vouchers & that I am informed no further [undecipherable] will be made until that act is finally [undecipherable] — The subject of your letter [undecipherable] be laid before the accountant on his return & his decision [undecipherable]