W. D. Accountants Office March 18^th 1794 Sir Your Attorney the Honorable Alexander D. Orr having received the sum of One thousand four hundred and sixty dollars being for the pay of the Scouts employed in your County between 15^th May and 31^st Decem.^t 1793. You are held accountable for the payment thereof agreeably to the inclosed pay roll, the receipts are to be taken separately and if a signature is not written to be witnessed by a respectable evidence and to be transmitted to me under cover to the Secretary of War — You will see that the pay due in this year is not yet paid which is owing to the act of appropriation not having been passed, when that is done the residue will be paid to your Attorney — By an act of Congress the assignment of the pay of a Non-commissioned Officer and private made subsequent to the 1^st of June 1792. is not valid, of course the payments are to be made to the original claimant — I am Sir &c Joseph Howell To Henry Lee Esq.^r Lt. Col. Com.^dt Mason County Kentuckey —