Department of War Accountants Office December 9^th 1800 Sir Your accounts exhibited to this Office for sundry expenditures in the Military Department, stated to be for payments made by you from the 1^st June to the 30 Sep^t. 1800 have been examined & before any part can be paid to you it will be necessary that the charges should be supported by the certificates & vouchers pointed out by the remarks copy of which is enclosed to you. I am with consideration Sir Your Obed^t Serv^t. [signature: [undecipherable] Simmons] Sam^l. Hodgdon Esq^r. No. 4^th [undecipherable] St. Philad^a. [William Simmons December 1800] [Department of War Accountants Office]