[240.] Arch^d Fish b^y New York B Accountants Office Sep^r 4^t 1800 Sir I received your letter (Note by [undecipherable] title enclos'd Forwards: Herein & to you [undecipherable] $7.90 for him Allo[w] Charge for [undecipherable] making [undecipherable] namely give dollars which will be enter'd on the Books of this Office — Sam R^o [undecipherable] Arch^d Bray [undecipherable] New Port B.S. Septem 4^t 1800 Sir You will receive from the Treasurer of [undecipherable] the Sum of Eleven Hundred Dollars on account of the Fortifica- tions casting in the Harbor of New York, for which your rect from the [undecipherable] your duplicate rec^t to be transmitted — Sam[undecipherable] [undecipherable] W^m Moses M United Springfield M^o Sep 8^t 1800 Sir I received your letter of the 1^st [undecipherable] — which I now return to you that you may observe by the minutes of [undecipherable] McEwan [undecipherable] Master General that you will [undecipherable] apply to Brig^r Williamson Dep^t Pay master [undecipherable] New Books for a Settlement — Sam^t [undecipherable] Lieu^t [undecipherable] Lindaars Sep 5^t 1800 Sir The Secretary of War has this day handed me an account stated by you for advances amounting to [undecipherable] before me [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] of the property of this charge he will be necessary for you to send me [undecipherable] the original orders authorizing the above charges, in [undecipherable] account [undecipherable]