[top right corner: 222] Gen^l Jackson Esq^r Boston — Accountants Office August 23^d 1800 Sir I have rec^d your letter of the 15^th Inst accompanied by your accounts vouchers for expenditures on account of the Fortifications erecting at Boston for July 1800 which will be placed under examination & you will be informed of the result. On this Statement you will receive a credit for $17.80 being your Commissions on the amount of purchases made by you on the Quartier Master Department in 1799 agreeable to the decision of the Secretary of War, and as the aggregate amount of your expenditures on account of the fortifications are stated $1000— if the accounts past rec^d are found correct, you will also receive credit for a Commission of 2½ p^r Ct and that Sum of 1½ p^r Ct for all above it agreeably to your Instructions of the 23^d Jan^y 1799. The balance found due on such settlement will exhibit the actual State of Public monies in your hands. You will be pleased to recommend your accounts thereto and in all future transmissions of them you will also calculate your Commission of 1½ p^r Ct in conformity to the Said Instructions — Sam H. W.J. Caleb Swan Esq^r P.M.G. August 23^d 1800 Sir Your letter of the 8^th and this date have been received — the Books accompanied by four hundred of Muster & Pay Roll Abstracts from N^o 101 to 200 inclusive. They will be filed until those before received be had examined on record — Sam H— [undecipherable]