[224] George Harrison Esq^r Accountants Office P. delph^a Septr 12^th 1800 Sir I have received your letter of the 8^th with the accounts & vouchers of the late Surveyor therein mentioned & which include advances made to Thomas Wellington for furnishing clothing for the Army amounting to Dollars 1905-- Advances or expenditures not for a Payment in [undecipherable] cannot be admitted unless specially ordered -- It will therefore be proper that you furnished us with the authority under which those advances have been made, and if more in consequence of any existing contract, the contract also must be furnished as well as the necessary vouchers showing how far m^r Wellington has complied with his engagements -- [signature - undecipherable] Mess^rs Carpenter & Findley September 12 1800 Powder Cincinnati N.W.T. Gentⁿ Your letter dated the 25 ulto directed to the Secretary of War was handed to me with the accounts therein enclosed -- In reply thereto I have to observe that the formation of returns of accounts monthly returns [undecipherable] the other part of your account except the advertising [undecipherable] and inserting in your paper the proposals for Rations is inadmissible -- The vouchers necessary to the settlement of this part of the account are for the first the order of the Officer who directed the printing to be done, or in case of his absence, your oath to the amount to [undecipherable] effect, and for the other, the order of the the Secretary of War