I have the honor to request that you will issue your warrant for one thousand six hundred dollars, on the appropriation, for Barbary Intercourse, in favor of Wm: Whann Esqr., the assignee of a Bill drawn upon me, on the 28th. March last by James Simpson, Consul at Morocco; the said Simpson to be charged therewith on the Books of the Treasury. The Bill is inclosed. I am &c.