It would be incurring an unnecessary expense to appoint an Agent specially to examine your accounts when they can so readily be remitted to this office by M^r. [undecipherable] it would likewise occur to you how unnecessary it would be to continue an officer to guard a length of time on Pay for the purpose of paying Troops a long time since [undecipherable: probable reading: march'd] to ask your [undecipherable] to be in so [undecipherable] a situation as to make it [undecipherable] to close the fragments within a reasonable time. You will therefore be pleased to [undecipherable] that the the fragments on the Rolls may not be [undecipherable] they are notwithstanding, to be forwarded with all your [undecipherable] and you are requested to attend particularly to the [undecipherable] of my letter of the 24 February last relating to the amount of [undecipherable] for the sum of $[undecipherable].77.57 as charged by you in your account [undecipherable] and for which bills have not been remitted to this office. The [undecipherable] above has [undecipherable] pay [undecipherable] to you in my [undecipherable] letter & still adheres to — Sam[undecipherable] [Enclosure to Col^o. [undecipherable: probable reading: Taliaferro] to be forwarded to M^r. [undecipherable]] Edw^d. Carrington [undecipherable] [undecipherable: probable reading: Supervisor] Richmond V^a Sir Your letter of 6 Instant enclosing two [undecipherable: probable reading: Receipts] therein mentioned has been received & the amount being one hundred eighty eight dollars & Thirty five Cents will [undecipherable] to your credit on the Books of this office — [undecipherable]