roll which may serve as a form for taking the receipts for the pay of your recruits at all times, which receipts are to be transmitted to this office under cover to the Secy of War. Lieu^t Horatio B. Taylan I am Sir &c in the Corps of Artificers & Joseph Howell Engineers Elizabeth Town New Jersey — W.D. Accountants Office October 9^th 1794 Sir, This will be handed by your attorney James Ware Jun^r who having received the sum of Sixteen hundred and Thirty five dollars and 34 Cents being for pay of the Troops of Jefferson county between 1^st August & 24^th Nov^r 1792 and 13^th April & 28^th Dec^r 1792. You are held accountable for the due application thereof to be paid agreeably to the inclosed pay rolls — You will therefore as soon as possible effect the payments and take the receipts which are to be transmitted to me under cover to the Secy of War — In case of a signature not being written it must be witnessed by a Magistrate or some other official Cha= racter, by a person of known responsibility — Lt Col John Thurston I am Sir &c Jefferson County Kentucky Joseph Howell