Hig^h Vane & Pallawn Accountants Office Philad. January 14^th 1801 Gentlemen — I have received from the War Office your accounts & on receipt of bills forward. In this transmit them alleged. Before I can admit any final [undecipherable] & write to prove that the subjects of both entered should as forth that the Bounties have undergone the appointments mentioned and [undecipherable] fruitless, and have been found equal to such as therein set forth. I have written to the [undecipherable] Bills to therein & requested him to furnish such certificates & accordingly transmit you the now abovementioned information. [Your acct & the Returned the talent must be granted seem to any act on the [undecipherable]] Coll. Allen [undecipherable]th January 14^th 1801 Collector of the Customs Pittsburgh R^o Sir, Your letter of the 14^th July last came only to hand and why it has remained so long unanswered I am really at a loss to say. If there now reply there I cannot give you any advice on this subject of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as I do not remember or know the subject. On the subject of the money remaining in your hands, and compensation for your extra services I have to show that if you did not [undecipherable] the abovementioned order on the general settlement in conveying the retention of those [undecipherable]. That you see in a settlement of the monies once received, make such charge as you have prepared under the subject, then to submit to the decision of [undecipherable] for his opinion what [undecipherable]