[284] Accountants Office October 21 1800 Major Som: Cap^s Pittsburg Sir The accounts mentioned in your letter of the 6 Inst. have been received from Auditor McKinley They have been examined & the sum of $17.17.97. Admitted which will be paid at Sight subject to your order, at least be paid agreeably to your letter to that Effect but he is not here to receive it — Sam No W[undecipherable] Caleb Swan Esq. October 21 1800 P.M. G. Sir Your letter dated 20 accompanied by the accounts therein mentioned have been received & Side [undecipherable] are I due examination. Sam No W[undecipherable] M^r Benj: Dufelle October 21 1800 Eastern [undecipherable] the Columbian [undecipherable] Boston Sir A letter dated 9 [undecipherable] with an account for printing, was handed us by the Secretary of War. Before accounts of this nature can be Paid, it is proper that they should be Stated so as to ascertain from the extent of such advertisement or the [undecipherable] printed [undecipherable] noticed in this account, attested by [undecipherable] is magistrate, the oath to the facts that the printing was done by order of the Secretary of War & unless for the prices charged, that the same charges is the same as charged in similar cases [undecipherable] rectifiable rules. The account then stated & forwarded to this Off[undecipherable]