[170.] M^r David Ames Accountants' Office Springfield M^s. June 5^th 1800 Sir The accountant of the War Department being absent I have just to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24^th Ult and to inform you that the papers of the Office being all packed up ready for removal to the City of Washington, the information you request cannot be given until their arrival there — Sam^l [undecipherable] Sam^l. Hodgdon Esq^r. June 7^th 1800 Sup^t. of M. S. Sir The accountant of the War Department being absent, it has become my duty to inform you that on settlement of the account of Nicklin & Griffith, the sum of Doles 383.⁰⁰/100 has been paid them, being the amount of the purchase money of 2 Iron 9 pound Cannon; & which appears by a letter from Cap^t Theodore Meminger Commandant at Fort Mifflin to have been received by him at the said Fort & remain there at this time — You are requested to make the necessary entries on the Books of your Office — Sam^l [undecipherable] Edward Carrington Esq^r. City of Washington June 26^th 1800 Supervisor Richmond V^a Sir The accountant not having yet arrived from Phila[delphia], it is my duty to acknowledge the receipt of your letters Dated the 1 June with their enclosures which will be attended to as early as circumstances will admit. The time necessarily taken up