the removal of the Office from Philad: to this place prevented my acknowledging the receipt of your letters before. Sam &c W.S. --- John Kilty Esq.^r Baltimore — Accountants Office City of Washington June 26. Sir I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 9^th Inst.^t inclosing the receipt of Jn: Foncin for two hundred & eight dollars & 7/100 which sum will be entered to your credit on the Books of this Office — Sam de P. Hagner Pr. Clk. --- M^r. Rob^t. Howe Wilmington N.C. June 26^th 1800 Sir I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 22^d Ult. which the removal of the Office from Philadelphia prevented me from doing before. As early as the Books & papers of the Office are properly arranged your accounts will be taken up for examination in course & the result will be duly communicated Sam &c P. Hagner Pr: Clk. --- The Hon.^ble Jon.ⁿ Dayton Elizabethtown N.J. June 26. 1800. Sir M^r. Simmons being absent it is my duty to acknowledge the rec.^t of your letter dated the 6^th Inst. and had not the removal of the Office prevented it I should have atten[ded] to it ere this — I have written to M^r. Elias B Dayton