[Docket notation, rotated:] War Office 19 Sept^r — Mr N[undecipherable] Ch: Clk — No 2 June 9 [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] June 2, 20[undecipherable] — Requesting Estimates of Salaries of Clerks & Messenger & contingent [Expenses] for the year 1801 [Address panel:] The Accountant for the War Dep^t War Office, 19 Sept: 1800. Sir, I am directed by the Secretary of War to request that you will, as soon as may be, cause him to be furnished with an Estimate of the Sum necessary to pay your Salary, and the Salaries of the Clerks & Messenger employed in your Office, and of the contingent Expenses thereof, for the Year 1801. I am Sir Your most obt. Serv^t. [undecipherable] Newman Ch. Clk. The Accountant of the War Department.