John Altly Esq^re Accountants Office Supervisor Feb.^y 26.^t 1801. Balt.^r Sir I received your letter dated 23 Chr.^t — enclosing Mess.^rs A & J. Fultons' receipt for D^rs 289. 67. which is entered on record on the Books of this Office. Sam.^de W.S. --- Caleb Swan Esq.^r February 26.^t 1801 P.M.G. Sir On settlement of the accounts of Vieulienant Mich.^l Lee Agent for paying the Troops in Georgia a balance is found due to the United States of Fifty nine dollars & 69/100, which sum you will please to deduct from his pay as it becomes due & furnish a certificate that his account may be closed on the Books of this Office. Sam.^de W.S. --- Willb.^m Chancellor Esq.^r February 28.^t 1801 Philad.^a Sir Your accounts for Goods imported from England on account of the United States are under examination but cannot be finally adjusted until I am furnished with a statement of the particulars of the duties paid by you on the respective importations (noticing the particulars of the drawbacks on damages Goods) the payment whereof must be certified by the Collector. The examination of your accounts will nevertheless progress, so as to enable me to make a final Settlement immediately on receipt of the documents now called for, which you will no doubt transmit to me with all possible expedition. Sam.^e W.S. --- Jon.^s Jackson Esq.^r Accountants Office Boston February 28.^t 1801 Sir I have received your letter dated the 16 Inst.^t The difference in the voucher you mention arose as you suggested. I will accordingly be rectified. Doct.^r Thomas Welsh's account is received but tho' the former one was paid under authority then deemed Sufficient it only extended to the period for which that account was allowed. It wile be necessary to shew in the present case, as in the former that Doctor Welsh was necessarily employed for the period charged & this by certificates from each officer whose command he attended; It appears to me that the same necessity for a Surgeon to attend the troops stationed in that vicinity does not now exist as when the appointment was made, at least if there is any necessity the duty cannot be so extensive as when the allowance was first fixed — there being but a trifling number of Troops now, in comparison with what there was then, & expected thereafter to be — and the appointment being