As no deduction has been made for these errors, you will be pleased to take measures for having the same, refunded. As your accounts are adjusted & the items suspended admitting of explanation by correspondence, the necessity of your coming here to facilitate a settlement, is thereby superseded. I am &c H.S. W^m Crafts Esq^r Accountants Office Charleston S. C^a August 30 1800 Sir Your accounts for expenditures on account of the Department of War, up to the 30 April last, have been adjusted and a balance found remaining in your hands of Five thousand five hundred five dollars, 4⁷/100, with which you stand charged on the Books of this Office, from your Statem^t differing D^r 28.23 & which you will find accounted for by the acc^t of differences annexed. You will observe that the Commission charged by you in the said acc^ts & those suspended on preceding Settlements, have been finally disallowed, & that you have been credited for your compensation according to the rates of commission fixed by the Sec^t of War Viz^t - on all monies transmitted through your hands to persons designated, except such as were on account of Contracts formed by you 1 pC^t and on all other disbursements 2½ pC^t. You will please therefore to regulate your Accounts accordingly. I am &c H.S. Acc^t of differences. The balance due The U. S. by Your Acc^t bur^t .... $ 5477.17 The balance due The United States, by this Settlement .... 5505.40 difference 28.23 [underline: Accounted for as follows ...... Viz^t] D^r To this amount suspended on last Settlement being for Commissions charged by him, now finally disallowed, in being credited for the proper commission as per Contra .............. $1072.37 To d^o disallowed being for like commission charged by him .... d^o .... d^o ......... 70.81 $ 1143.18 C^r By this am^o short added in the aggregate amount of his General Abstract ...... $1.— By amount of Commissions allowed him as fixed by the Sec^y of War, — Viz^t: on $21000,— being the amount of sundry sums transmitted to him to be paid to Tho^s Bennett, on account of his Contr. entered into with D. Defaussure late Agent for erecting certain Fortifications on Shutes Folly, dated 1 July 1798, @ 1pC^t ..... 210.— on $36158.38, being the residue of his expenditures on acc^t of the Dep^t of War up to the 30 April 1800 @ 2½ pC^t .... 903.95 1113.95 28.— Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^r Accountants Office Sup^t of M. S. Philad^a August 30 1800 Sir William Crafts Esq^r Agent of the War Dep^t at Charleston S^oC^a, has received a credit on the Books of this Office for two Boats with Sails as stated by Major Constant Freeman to have been furnished for the use of Forts Moultrie & Johnston by order of General Pinckney .......... Viz^t Paid for a Boat for Fort Moultrie .......... $ 120.— d^o d^o for Fort Johnston ......... 132.— 3 pieces Ravens duck for Sails ......... 45.— making 2 Suits of Boat Sails, Rope &c .... 24.[undecipherable] Doll^t 322.