your accounts I show you have rights a very material point, for on an instance have you procured the receipt for the settlements made with your agents for money received by them. of the absolute necessity of this you are informed by [undecipherable] — when you had the account of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] returned to you because you had not his receipt for the money drawn — & yet I observe you have credited it without this receipt. In solicitation of your immediate attention — Sam [undecipherable] W[undecipherable] M^r Conrad Beem Accountants Office Salisbury N. C. October 21^st 1800 Sir Your account & Vouchers for Rations furnished & Quarter Master's Hospital Supplies expenditures for this [undecipherable] Cap^t [undecipherable] Bowen Amount at Salisbury [N.C.] in February March April & May 1800, have been exhibited at this Office by John Stith [undecipherable]. And on their examination His am^t of $1016 00 is found due & you will be [undecipherable] to give order on demand or remittance to the Auditor [undecipherable] N.C. as you may be pleased to direct. Sam [undecipherable] W[undecipherable] Col^d Carrington Esq. October 21^st 1[undecipherable] Jefferson Richmond Va. Sir I transmit your letter of the 17 [undecipherable] enclosing Thomas Hills draft for $[undecipherable] which I will Give the [undecipherable] receipts to return to you as he was unwilling to Commit on this Department — Sam [undecipherable] W[undecipherable]