[388] Will: Crafts Esq^r Charleston S^tC^a Accountants Office October 10^th 1800 Sir, The settled accounts heretofore referred said to have been made on account of this Department by the Collector of the port of Charleston, have been transmitted by the Auditor of the Treasury for settlement at this Office. On examination of the accounts there does appear any evidence that the expenditures were made on account of the War Department, they are therefore referred to you for investigation & also for General accounts shewing to what head the few items which properly belong to the War Department may be credited on the settlement. — You will also allow the Collector a commission of 1 p[superscript: c]t on the amount of his expenditures. Sam R^d [initial] Will^m Shute Esq^r late Mayor of E[liz?] Elizabethtown N^J October 29 1800 Sir, Yours of the 16^th Ins^t has been received & duly noticed. Now appears to communicate the means which led to the stoppage of your pay for forage improperly assumed from the contractor. It was stated to be because the Pay Master was authorized to make the forage allowance. — If you doubt not ensure these cases Entered in the Acts relative to forage & have of an other authority which authorizes this receiving it in any other way. The money received by you from nothing for Fault was properly deducted for the reason commanded from time to this Contractor. Sam R^d [initial]