[330] Accountants Office December 30 1800 Joshua Orne Esq. Marblehead. Sir I returned your letter of the 17 Inst. with the amounts therein mentioned. They will be placed under examination in course — Sam[undecipherable] [undecipherable] December 31 1800 Joshua Orne Esq. Marblehead, M[undecipherable]. 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 nine dollars & [undecipherable] passed to your credit on the Books of the Office, leaving a balance of seven hundred [undecipherable] [undecipherable] dollars & [undecipherable] due from you to the United States, which differs from your statement [undecipherable] dollars & [undecipherable] being this amount of the two enclosed lists which are returned to you for the purpose of having them receipted, when they will be admitted to your credit in settlement of your next account — Sam[undecipherable] [undecipherable] January 2^d 1801 Robert Gilmor Esq. Chairman of the Naval Committee Baltimore Sir I have received your letter 31 [undecipherable] last year, with a [undecipherable] of accounts for expenditures on acco[undecipherable] of the fortifications at Baltimore which accounts shall be [undecipherable] under examination in course and the result communicated [undecipherable]