[undecipherable] [Marginalia top left: Accounts / War D[ep]t] Sir M^r. O'Hara now [undecipherable] manner, [undecipherable] on account of [payment?] [undecipherable] for the [past?] [undecipherable] nothing [amounts?] to but [undecipherable] consequently years being yet unsettled. [In?] our statement that [undecipherable] balance is due in them to the United States at a now [undecipherable] this since my last letter to you [directing?] the accounts [to?] also that the Paymaster General & Quarter Master General [undecipherable] particularly [urgently?] request on you the [settlement?] of the O'Hara's accounts [requested?] [would?] name [it?] him being and which it should not be delayed. This was [and?] also to [said?] been here waiting for your decision thereon a number Monthly as well as [for?] more general reasons [stand?] to him to and [undecipherable] three months here making on the whole a [undecipherable] at the [head?] of [adjournment?] of 3 months for the [making?] up of his accounts & in the mean time in his own [opinion?] it is advanced on his contract for the present year. The [undecipherable] been obliged to furnish the [requisite?] supplies such being unless rendered necessary by most extraordinary circumstances [undecipherable] must cause great injustice to individuals & bring disgrace on the Department of War. No such circumstances are within my knowledge. [undecipherable] it becomes unceasingly [undecipherable] ensued in my mind lest M^r. O'Hara should be reduced to actual [want?] & [distress?] for want of a settlement of his Accounts & yet I cannot make him advances, because from your office alone can I derive information as to his accounts & the last I received from that [source?] was that he was greatly delinquent. I therefore once more earnestly desire you to bring to a close the Accounts of M^r. O'Hara, as well as those of The [Paymaster?] Master [General?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] bringing [undecipherable] [to a close?] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] accounts & [proper?] [justice?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] directed [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]