attendance may be dispensed with excepting Lieut Daniel Britt paymaster of Sub Legion to whom the paymaster of the Troops seems partly to have transferred his duty to a certain period, the settlement of the paymasters advances to him therefore depends on the passage of his accounts which are for the expenditure of upwards of Ninety thousand dollars since May 1792— I have therefore to request Sir that you would be pleased to direct M^r Britt as soon as may be to come forward for the purpose of settling his accounts— I am Sir &c Joseph Howell The Secretary of War— W. D. Accountants Office March 25^th 1794 Sir Your letter to the Secretary of war of 1^st November last covering a pay roll and receipts for one Months pay of the Detachment of Fort Franklin has been handed to me. there appears a misapplication in