[121] use of the accounting service, for which you will please to take his receipts accordingly — I am Sir &c Joseph Howell Nicholas Fish Esq.^r Supervisor New York — W.D. Accountants Office May 24^th 1796 Sir Herewith you will receive an account of Col. LeBaton Butler for expenditures made by him as paymaster and Commissary to two Companies stationed at the Town of Westmoreland in 1776. — The receipts for the Bounty of the Men as well as for other payments are wanting but there being original rolls of the mens names expressing the time of inlistment, I have not hesitated to allow the charge — the other charges being trifling I have accepted his qualification as a voucher. — The Colonel was appointed to this duty on the 27^th August 1776 and was to receive one twelfth part of a dollar for each ration — but it