which are intended to authorize the State to call forth a certain force, and I believe will apply to the present claim, if so you will be pleased to offer your authority on the description had furnished to you when I shall commence an examination of the account, and in the mean time if you are so disposed a payment may with safety be made of twenty thousand dollars on account. I am &c &c Joseph Howell The Secretary of War — W. D. Accountants Office March 20^th 1794 Sir I have received your letter of 18^th inst enclosing the rolls of your recruits for the month of February — The Secretary of War having ordered certain of your recruits to march to West point they will be paid the arrears in this year at that place for yourself and those of your recruits remaining you will transmit a Muster for Jan^y Feb^y & March, as soon as this Month expires, and the pay will be sent on immediately. The balance due you on the settlement of your accounts, has been remitted in the usual