[page 231] Willet J Smith Esq^r New York Accountants Office October 20^th 1800 Sir, I some time first wrote to M^r E B Dayton heretofore for New Jersey on the subject of some original papers which were absolutely necessary to the Demazine of his accounts for reply he informed me that they were in your possession that he had made application to you for them; but as you conceive them to be given vouchers for the Doors where you were necessarily you did not feel yourself willing to give them up to my order — I have therefore to request you will be pleased to This Office all their original papers eligible for by Mr Dayton that they may be filed with there names as authority for passing their amounts to the credit of the contractor as well at This Office as at the Treasury — Sam H P.T. M^r Elias B Dayton Elizabethtown N.J. Sir, I received yours of the 8^th Inst enclosing a sheet of explanations to the Suspended charges of your acct — agreeable to a request therein contained I now inclose you that you may have the objections obviated, the amounts of 16 [undecipherable] for rent of a Annex for Lieut Dommars [undecipherable] and fined to — of Maj Dommin 10.2.83 for wood & transportation of table untilaged 11.95 and of Aaron Kittle (.70) for finding horse & Corn, not noticed 368.87½ — I have written this day to Willet Smith on the subject of those original papers relative to your acct to [undecipherable]