[Gen^l Jackson Esq^r Boston] Accountants Office December 18^th 1800 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of one hundred ninety three dollars & 97/100 where you will be pleased to pay to Gen^l Dearborn being for his pay Subsistance for October & pay for November 1800 as Brigadier taking his duplicate receipts for the same — [sum 193 W L] M^r John Fenning Boston — Sir Dec^r 15^th 1800 I have received your letter of the 12^th Inst accompanied by your account for pay & Subsistance for Oct & pay for Nov^r 1800, amounting to one hundred ninety three dollars & 97/100 which sum you will receive from Gen^l Jackson Esq^r Supervisor at Boston, for which sum you will be pleased to grant your duplicate receipts — [sum 40 W L] December 18^th 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 the means thereof permit me to reply by relating the circumstances attending each of these accounts which seem to trust an unnec[essary] delay must be attributed to this office in their