Accountant's Office January 8^th 1801 Joshua Browⁿ Esq^r Agent of Fortifications Berkshire — M^s Sir On looking over your accounts for the month of September last as agent of Fortifications I find a charge of sixty dollars paid to Jacob Putnam "for building 24 Rods of Stone Walls" by agreement as a consideration for the debt owes to the Fortifications — as this charge is not as explicit as I could wish I return you the bill on which it is made, but you may be unable to explain it more fully — Sam^l &c W[undecipherable] The Hon^t January 8^th 1800 Abra^m Baldwin in Senate Sir I had the honor to receive your note of yesterday, and in reply have to inform you that the Pay [undecipherable] books for militia musters answers generally [undecipherable] and are on file in this Office, & that the Pay Bills of Light Horse Militia, Select Militia & [undecipherable] are among them — The [undecipherable] employed in Georgia as well as those employed elsewhere have been allowed [undecipherable] a ration per day in full for every charge for their [undecipherable] and it is [undecipherable] presumed has found an invariable rule to [undecipherable] from such allowance also made by the United States — Sam^l W[undecipherable]