less did I conceive myself authorized to admit the charges which, before, I state as unauthinged — since the dates of that letter the accounts have been arranging, & Statements will, before long, be completed for entry on my Books. 3^d The greater part of the accounts of this day [undecipherable] have been received and [undecipherable] — the remainder are [undecipherable] examination — & Statements will be made for entry on the Books of this Office as soon as the examination is complete. Upon [undecipherable] of this letter I have to call your attention to the multiplicity of business allotted to my Office — the great number of accounts which I must attend to the settlement of, and particularly, in order [undecipherable] accounts as they [undecipherable] matters Masters & Contractors, the great number of references to subordinate accounts existing during the [undecipherable] — these circumstances [strikethrough: considered] will I trust show the [undecipherable] of the lengths an examination of those accounts and I beg leave to assure you Sir that I have been [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] accounts from persons claiming further monies & giving them an examination as speedily [undecipherable] as a material point of my duty to endeavour to reduce the immense arrears on the Books of this Office. I therefore trust no [undecipherable] will attach [undecipherable] to my Office on that subject. I am &c W.S. [address:] Caleb Cushing Esq. Supervisor Richmond V[undecipherable] [note in different hand:] Sir I support your proposition of the 17 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the accounts of M^r Bridges to [undecipherable] Davis to be by him init[undecipherable]