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rejected until receipted for by them.

To remedy the obvious necessity of vouchers for the cost of articles charged. I can now see no other way for you to establish the same, but by forwarding your oath or affirmation, that the articles by you charged was the current & real price that they actualy cost you & that you have not drawn any other profit or [undecipherable] therefore besides your Commission at 5 J Ct.

I am &c. W.S.

Accountant's Office October 16th 1799.

Archd. Creary Esq. Agent of Fortifications New Port - R.I.

Sir Referring to my letter of the 18 Ult. I have by this to hand you Instructions, by which you are in future to be governed, us to what regards vouchers & the forms of keeping & rendering your accounts (as Agent of Fortifications) to this Office for settlement, the necessary directions, how to disburse the Public monies entrusted to your care & the application of the articles purchased by you, you have already (no doubt) received from the Secy of War.

Your accounts must be rendered to this Office monthly for all expenditures made by your during the preceding month necessary to a final settlement, & I shall require on such settlement, a strict compliance on your part with all Instructions received from The Secy of the War and that your charges be accompanied with fair, regular, explicit bills & receipts, annexed for the monies paid by you the [undecipherable] to be numbered in rotation according to the dates of payment.