[404] Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^r Accountants Office Philad^a March 3^rd 1801 Sir Nathaniel Smith has received Credit at the Office for 2000 Rations, Rations and the Public Stores, at Philad^a, agreeable to your receipt dated 6^th Nov^r 1800 — of you W^t amounting to $3420 — of which you will be pleased to make the necessary entries on the Books of your Office — [signature] March 11. 1801 James Sewell Esq^r Savannah Georgia Sir A recent visit by Delaware Ellis for [his?] Claim undecided in the State of Georgia for D^r $[undecipherable] on account of his Contract for the Year 1800 and formally at this Department from the Treasury as I understand, receive from you as Collector of the Customs. Before you can advise & assist thereof it is necessary that a Warrant should pass for the amount from this Department in your favor — it will be necessary therefore for you to show by what authority the [undecipherable] was listed and on what Documents, whether in the attitude of the Contractor being debited to you in his accounts [kept?] in your [undecipherable] satisfactorily [undecipherable] to this effect will be [undecipherable] before such Warrant will pass — you are [to?] [undecipherable] the amounts in attitude of the [undecipherable] Warrants you are requested to forward them to this Office