[336] John Steele Esq^r Comptroller of the Treasury Accountants Office December 29. 1800 Sir In compliance with the requisite contained in your letter of the 24 Instant I transmit [undecipherable] herewith an Abstract of the charges disallowed in fulfilment of the accounts of James O'Hara's [undecipherable] contractor for provisions supplied the Troops of the United States under his contracts of the Years 1796, 1797 & 1798 & the resolutions which have governed me in refusing their admission, together with the vouchers in support of them. In this said abstract will be found pending charges disallowed in the [undecipherable: propriety] of which M^r C. O'Hara has this day [undecipherable: acquiesced] & have therefore found it unnecessary to trouble you with the vouchers which relate to them. I have only to add that I shall hold myself ready at all times to wait on you in order to any elucidations which may be found necessary — [signature] [undecipherable]