[from Gibbon Oct. 15. 1794 Constant Freeman] Augusta, 15^th October 1794. Sir, I have received your favour of the 1^st of July, twenty received Billiards right of filing out to the Bank of Alexandria. they all came to hand within a few days. I then can my endeavour to conform to the Comptrollers instructions as far as circumstances would admit. I was for some time at a loss on what order to lay the Subsistence Rations and specifically those meant to the troops annually and as they had been made to the troops the distance was too great to obtain Receipts from the men as the times of absence were too numerous to be particular as to their presence. There appears to me to be necessary that his papers in the same manner and considered as the end of an administration, that they were rolls for the discharged men have gotten to them made out and the money placed in all payments. Surely that at the beginning of this month, should any casualty of sickness or death happen, the examination of the Service, then they alone would have to refund the money. It would be impossible to comply with your requisition. The muster rolls would accompany every state rolls and it appears to have them made therefore it will produce regular state, that has been that at this month for all the discharged and all the funds made will have been paid to all the troops, it appears to me this would be attended with the minimum expense, it would be pleased to commence clean from the next month's muster rolls, in one of the monthly Petition papers by my opinion you would find that the others concerned are entitled to their discharges at the periods mentioned in the pay lists. I apply the same observations will apply to the Invalids. I suppose it is your desire that officers should receive daily Subsistence allowances, the lost column of the pay them [undecipherable] and the should also be [undecipherable] would entitle the pay to have them also paid to us for payment. I would be sent abroad without a man is some on our payroll rolls for Subsistence of pay and is not also some a muster roll in the same month. I have mentioned to you in time for my letter my reason for inspecting the amount of my expenditures for sundry services. It has been that you might know from time to time the sum of my money. I have intended to pay the vouchers and for approved, and I should think the year before I return. But I am would think it necessary, I shall write to you as soon as I shall return to the fort. I flatter myself the said upon a fair account been acted upon by my vouchers which I have transmitted since the first and they may be resolved in your kind an indifferent statement as from the forms of information would advise, and that you will give me account closed to my credit. I send it to you that as soon as practicable, and I have therefore transmitted I have sometimes presented nothing more than a Statement of my expenditures. I left Fort Fidelius on the ninth instant, and have come to this place for the purpose of forming the militia under General [undecipherable] who ordered some injunctions not incompatible and part of the present system agreeable to the orders of the [undecipherable] of M^rs. Alexander who is to be submitted to Congress. Cap^t. Randolph and invalids no more than one hundred and eighty and one hundred feet have been authorized by the President of the United States, Cap^t. [undecipherable] commanded. General I shall write the title commandment. Please when I transmit the rolls. I received your letter of the first of July but the day before yesterday. Your other letter is doubtful is lost but give the balance of his account to me. The Cashier of the Bank of the United States may rely upon my scrupulously observing his injunctions injunctions relative to the signatures and notes he has sent me. Your letter of the thirty first of July and 1^st of August, in one of which you inform me an Estimate has been received. I have not come to hand. And I have not heard whether the Supervisor has received the money which has been remitted for the pay of the troops. I have written to him upon the Subject and as he lives a distance from this place, it may be some days before I receive an answer. The northern mail has not arrived these three weeks. I send this letter in the way I knew. Enclosed is a duplicate of one sent to you of the twenty fifth of last month. I am Sir with great esteem Your Humble Servant Jph. Freeman [paraph] P.S. I have sent to my brother an order on you for one hundred and fifty six dollars, you will oblige me greatly if you would answer it— G.F. Joseph Howell Esq^a C. S. D. M.