[Comptrollers Office ——] Joseph Howell Esquire Accountant in the Department of War [from Oliver Wolcott Esq^re November 14. 1794] [undecipherable: tabular calculations, partially legible: 1/1 —— [undecipherable] 1/1 —— [undecipherable] 14/44 + [undecipherable]] Treasury Department —— Comptrollers Office Novem^br 14^th 1794 [fa] Colonel Sproat has repeatedly called on me and intimated it as your wish that I would communicate my opinion on his Claim for pay as an Officer of the Militia — He states that he is the Colonel of the Militia Regiment in Washington County, that he called out and has commanded a Detachment of about One Hundred Men by orders of the Sec^y of War, that no doubt is entertained except as to his pay as commanding Officer —— If these facts are proved as the Law and established forms require I see nothing to cause a doubt as to the propriety of his Claim —— If however you wish for my Opinion on any point relating to this Subject, I request that it may be reduced to writing I am very respectfully Sir Your Obedient Servant Oliv Wolcott Joseph Howell Esq^re