[236] again. I am therefore very much at a los how to act but have thought it reasonable for the public interest & that [undecipherable] may be done to transmit the whole of the papers to you remarking that you will be pleased to go over them an examination; furnish me with your opinions to be laid before the Comptroller of the Treasury, to be better enabled to do it from your knowledge of many of the persons, & the places where the supplies are stated to have been furnished by, as well as the Contractor himself— As soon as you have made the necessary examination I will thank you to return the whole of the papers with such report as you may thinks the nature of the subject requires— Sam hs [initials] William Milnors Esq^r New York Accountants Office Sep^r 18 1800 Sir In answer to yours of the 6 Inst. I have to inform you that I have no recollection of [undecipherable] Who or any other person ever presenting any account of yours to me for settlement— I have no acquaintance with [undecipherable] & do not know where he is to be found— Sam hs [initials]