Bounty & Pay for Captain Rudolph & His Men

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[24 May 1791 to Capt. M. Rudolph with $19 Dollars for Pay & Bounty J.] Pay Office Philad.^a May 2[undecipherable], 1791 Sir By direction of the Secretary for the department of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I have transmitted you a [undecipherable] on John Habersham Esq^r. Collector for the Port of Savannah [undecipherable] the Sum of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Fourteen Dollars [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Officers & Men [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Officers [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you direction — give instructions to Maj^r Dale to Muster your Company from the Dates of Inlistments to the first of this Year, & also from that period to the [undecipherable] Government. I feel anxious to have the Muster Rolls, and Receipts of monies paid your Officers & Men in order to enable me to close your Accounts in the Books of this office as well as to ascertain the balances due your Officers & Men respectively. I have therefore to request you will by the first safe conveyance transmit me the receipts and for fear of accident either take dupli- cate receipts or keep a return of them & have it certified by one of your Officers — you will also [undecipherable] please [undecipherable] and transmit me a receipt for this Money — I am with esteem & [undecipherable] Ob^t Svt. Joseph Howell Cap^t Mich. Rudolph

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Howell has transmitted to Rudolph a Bill of Exchange on John Habersham, Collector for the Port of Savannah, for the sum of $819, $456 of which is for a bounty of six dollars each for 76 non-commisioned officers and privates. The residue is to be appropriated for the pay of Rudolph and his officers and men through December 1790. Howell is anxious to have the muster rolls and receipts of monies paid Rudolph's men so that he can close Rudolph's account in the Books of his office.