[Gen Jackson Esq Boston] Accountants Office December 18^th 1800 Sir, The treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of one [undecipherable] ninety three dollars & [undecipherable] where you will be pleased to pay to [undecipherable] General [undecipherable] for his pay & subsistence for October & pay for November 1800 as [undecipherable] taking his duplicate receipts for the same — Sum 1[undecipherable] W.L. Mr John [undecipherable: probable reading Fenno] Boston — Sir, I have received your letter of the 12^th Inst: accompanied by your account for pay & subsistence for Oct & pay for Nov 1800, amounting to one hundred ninety three dollars & [undecipherable] which sum you will receive from [undecipherable] Jackson Esq^r [undecipherable] at Boston, for which sum you will be pleased to grant your duplicate receipts — [undecipherable] W.L. December 18 1800 The Secretary of War Sir, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18^th on the subject of the accounts of M^r O'Hara Contractor & those of the Quarter Master General by M^r Masters [undecipherable] — permit me to reply by relating the circumstances attending each of these accounts which [undecipherable] most [undecipherable] delay must be attributed to this office in their