War Department Accountant's Office August 20 1798 Sir, In being appointed anner of the War department from the Territory of the United States [south?] of the Ohio, it is my Duty to give you instructions relating to the part of your agency which a [pertains?] to the paying of the Troops in the service of the United States. The [sometime?] instructions to the Pay Masters in the books are to be your general guide. It is to be observed that those instructions were communicated to under a System for Statement of the Army accounts up to the last August 1792, which will not exactly apply in all instances. Your business will be to attend to that part intended to operate after the [period?] of 1792 as the same may apply. The instruction to the Comptroller with the form of the Rolls therein are [your?] present[?] from its War office. You will find that the form of a Pay roll for service to August 31 1792, marked B was not able to form the form of a monthly Muster, and the form C of Monthly Pay felt to a Company in its [own?] District or [missionary?] has left it to [demonstrate?] the forms that you will use, as they were intended for the regular books of Counts. They vary according to [circumstances?], when applied to the [Nuclear?] instance the form D in the headings will [be?] [shown?] to apply to all of Regiment [notwithstanding?] as may happen to the Members [undecipherable] the forms E, F, I, Muster and Pay Rolls for [undecipherable] attachments you will observe by the Comptrollers instructions, now principally apply to the [detachments?] of the main army, or at least relate to a company of Militia here in service. When the Main Army would be applicable in connection from which Parties would [penetrate?]. As your payments to the Militia Strictly will be on [boundary?] correctly in each case these forms may not always [answer?]; in any instance where they may apply you [will?] [be?] [able?] [to?] allot[?] them. I wish to turn your attention to the instructions for paying the troops through Subordinate Paymasters and you are directed to notify the Paymaster that one [assignment?] of