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Mr. James Morrison Lexington Kentucky

Accountant's Office October 21st 1800

Sir No opportunity has heretofore offered to draw the money out of your hands which you received from John Edwards - You are now requested to pay the amount in your hands to Capt. Saml C Vance I take his Triplicate receipts therefor . two of which you will by different opportunities forward to this Office for your exoneration. The balance due by Coll. Edwards as I suggested in my letter to you of 27 ' Decr. last year. & to which I have received no reply [indecipherable] of necessity be paid, — The credit he claims for the money paid as he says by his clerk for which he has no vouchers cannot in any way be admitted to your credit & I only wish from you a communication as to the probability of his paying the balance due as stated by me that I may report his case to the Comptroller of the Treasury for the purpose of commencing suit. The money has laid in his hands so shamefull a length of time without having been properly applied that to indulge him further would I conceive be a want of duty as a Public Officer : To this effect I shall write to Coll Edwards & the letter I request you to forward to him with a request to pay the balance to prevent legal interference ~

I am &c. W.S.