Comptroller Gen^s Office May 28. 1797 Dear Sir Agreeble to the request contained in your letter of the 18^th March I enclose you the accounts current and the necessary accts of Captain Savage allotted to [undecipherable] on the accounts in my hand writing shew the two recruits as they appear in the Muster & 233[undecipherable] dollars in specie was deducted from his account of Deficit as the Balance due to the United States I am D^r Sir Your Ob^d Serv^t J Nicholson Jn^t Howell Esq^r