[372] three/ hundreds & twenty dollars &^c) with remarks thereon to enable you according to law to report to the Comptroller of the Treasury, agreeable to your desire — Sam &^c W.S. Griffith S. M^cCobb^y Accountants Office Wilmington N:C: December 26 1800 Sir, I have received your letter from Charles County enclosing an amount received by you for Co: during 1800. Before other steps can take place it will be necessary that you forward to this Office a certified copy of the authority under which you acted, as no such name as Rufus Evarts appears on the list in the War Office of Temporary Surgeons. Sam &^c W.S. Jan: Dickson Esq^r December [undecipherable] 1800 Boston I have received your letter of the 15 Inst enclosing your receipt for at $617.77 which will be entered on the Books of this Office — Sam &^c W.S.