of the detachment under your Command made up to different periods to those men who have left the detachment and for those present to the 31^st of March 1794 amounting to dollars 535. 21.63 which sum you having received you will please to disburse it and take receipts annually to the roll, to be (as soon as may be) transmitted to me with your accounts and vouchers for the expenditures of the public money you have received. I am Sir &c Joseph Howell P.S. The officers to whom you have advanced recruiting money you will call on for an immediate settlement. Major Thomas Butler W. D. Accountants Office April 23, 1794 Sir, The Secretary of War has directed a remittance to you through the hands of Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor of New York of two thousand dollars being for repairs and articles to be made and purchased by the