No Payments Are to be Paid on Account or In Advance, Etc.

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W D A^do Aug.^t 16. 1793 Sir Since my letter of the 10 Ins^t. I have rec^d yours of the 20 & 23 ^d June last, inclosing your Acct. with the United States, what can not be taken up untill the subordinate vouchers are transmitted as it appears to [undecipherable] be chiefly for your transactions previously to your appointment as P. Lieut^t. I should have supposed the transmission might have taken place at Pitts-burgh. I particularly want the names of the men whom you have borne on and Enroll'd. you are assured no doubt that no payments are to be made by you, or and, or in advance your payments will be upon [strikethrough: furlod] pay rolls. [strikethrough: only deducting] I do not rightly understand the transaction you mention about the advance of 3000 D^rs. and upwards to M^r. D[undecipherable]. you are please to inform under what Date I am to find the direction you mention that I gave to you — I am preparing the Pay for a part of the Troops & I have made a requisition of 2000 Dol^rs more for arrears of Subsistence. In [undecipherable] for arrears of Subsistence, you will have the

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In settling Swan's account, Howell needs the names of the levies that Swan has paid in full and warns him that no payments are to be made in advance of payments recorded on payrolls. Howell does not understand the advance made to Mr. Britt and wants Swan to cite the directions authorizing that transaction. The pay of the troops for April is being prepared with additions for arrears and subsistence. Mr. Hodgdon has been sent three reams of comptroller's rolls.