[Accountants Office] December 11^th 1800 M^r David Ford of the firm of Ford, Frelinghuysen & Ford's Morristown. N. Jersey Sir Your account on the Books of this Office is charged with the sum of Sester Merchandise several hundred & Fourteen dollars after, having been received from the Treasury Department on acc^t of a contract for supplying Iron Ball & Ballly. As this period has long since expired and whilst this articles were to have been remitted to you all a receipts consequently exists for an immediate attention to the Settlement of your account I have to request that you would forward without delay to this Office a Statement shewing the amount supplies, and supported by such documents as the nature of the Contract calls for — Sam^t W^m W.[undecipherable] --- [Accountants Office] Decemb^r 20^th 1800 James A Hara Esq^r City of Washington Sir On the 2^d instant you were furnished with a Statement of your accounts, under your Contracts of 1796, 1797, & 1798 shewing the balance due by you under each Contract (exclusive of Interest) amounting in the aggregate to the Sum of Ninety eight thousand, nine hundred forty three Dollars & [undecipherable]. Your letter of the 18^th Inst^t calls for a Statement of the deductions made in the Department of the [undecipherable] accounts which I now make, amounting to one hundred forty eight thousand