Treasury Department, Comptroller Office, 26 July 1792 Sir, Your having been appointed Paymaster of the Troops of the United States, it has become my duty to transmit to you instructions in respect to the forms for keeping and rendering the accounts of your office. — By the act under which you have been appointed, the following duties are assigned to the Paymaste of the Troops of the United States. — Firstly. — To receive the Pay Abstracts of the Paymasters of the several Regiments, or Corps, and compare the same to the returns or Muster Rolls which [undecipherable] accompany the said Pay abstracts. — Secondly. To certify accurately to the Commanding Officer, the sums due to the respective corps, which shall have been examined as aforesaid. — Thirdly — To transmit to the accountant of the War Department, copies of all reports to the Commanding [strikethrough: Officer] and of the Warrants issued therein. — The monies necessary to enable you, to discharge such Warrants as may be drawn on you by the Commanding Officer, will be placed in your hands, in consequence of Warrants to be drawn by the Secretary of War, on the Treasurer of the United States. R