[330] Joshua Coxe Esq. Marblehead Accountants Office December 30 1800 Sir I received your letter of the 17 Inst. with the accounts therein mentioned. they will be placed under examination in course — Sam[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Joshua Coxe Esq. Marblehead, M^s December 31 1800 Sir — Your accounts & receipts for expenditures in July & August last on account of the Fortifications at Marblehead have been examined, and the sum of two hundred fifty [undecipherable] dollars & [undecipherable] passed to your credit on the Books of the Office; leaving a balance of seven hundred [undecipherable] dollars & [undecipherable] due from you to the United States, which differs from your Statement as relates to [undecipherable] being the amounts of the two retained [undecipherable] which we [undecipherable] to you for the purpose of having them replaced, when they were to be admitted to your credit on settlement of your next accounts Sam[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Robert Gilmor Esq. Chairman of the Naval Committee Baltimore January 2^d 1801 Sir I have received your letter [undecipherable] 31 [undecipherable] last year, with a [undecipherable] of accounts for expenditures on acc[undecipherable] of the Fortifications at Baltimore which accounts shall [undecipherable] under examination in course and the result communicated [undecipherable]