must be ratified by the [undecipherable]. This examination of your accounts will nevertheless [undecipherable] so as to enable me to make a final [undecipherable: Statement] immediately on receipt of the documents here stated for, which you will please [undecipherable] transmit to me with all possible expedition — [undecipherable] N.S. Jon^s Jackson Esq^r Accountants Office Boston February 21 1801 Sir, I have reciev'd your letter dated the 16 Inst. The deficiency in the vouchers you mention [were?] as you suggested I will accordingly be [undecipherable: satisfied]. Doct Thomas Welsh's account is received but the the former [are not?] paid under authority [undecipherable] named [undecipherable] it only extends to the [undecipherable] for which that account was [undecipherable]. It will be necessary to show in the present case as in the former that Doctor Welsh's was necessarily employed in the [undecipherable] charges [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable: certified] from each Officer whose command [he] attended. It appears to me that the [undecipherable] necessary 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 [undecipherable] 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. I [undecipherable] therefore to be — and this appointment [may?]