W.D. Accountants Office December 10^th 1794 Sir, I have received your letter of 9^th Inst: enclosing a roll of your recruits. I now enclose a form of a Muster roll you will have a muster taken to the last of this month (after its expiration) duplicates whereof is to be transmitted to this department and I shall then remit the pay— N.B. If any men enlisted I am Sir &c By order Please give you Joseph Howell & the date of Inlistment should be inserted on the proper column and the time of joining and from whose command to be in the column for remarks— Ensign David Thompson Winchester Virginia W.D. Accountants Office December 19^th 1794 Sir, Enclosed is a copy of a report of the late Commissioner of Army Accounts to Congress on the claim of Capt. [undecipherable]— This I presume will give your humble Committee the information required— The Honble. W^m Tracy, Chearman I am Sir &c of the Committee of Elections— Joseph Howell W.D. Accountants Office Sir, December 17^th 1794 I enclose the following papers, viz.— A Muster roll of your recruits to 1^st Instant— Ensign Vofs and [undecipherable] of information in search of deserters being returned to you, also A duplicate pay roll of Capt. Hannahs re- cruits from 1^st Nov^bl. to 30^th July 1794 and A return of men enlisted by Capt. Hannah stationed at Norfolk — The muster roll is returned in order that it may be certified on oath to be a true Statement of your recruits agreeably to the circular letter of the Se- cretary of War dated March 1^st 1793 when this alone shall be returned to the Office the pay will be remitted— Ensign Vofs Accounts and vouchers returned being inadmissible in their present form— It is ne- cessary to advance monies for any purpose the person or persons receiving it should be held accountable to produce regular vouchers to the person who made the advance for his expenditures thereof which being so vouched would then become proper charges against the [United] States— As it appears that the persons to whom Ensign Vofs advanced the monies are Sailors and probably not with him, to remedy the defect, I would advise that he should state on Acct. against the [United] States for the monies actually expended and let those persons qualify to it and that they received the money for the same from M^r Vofs— The pay call of Capt. Hannahs men forwarded to you in order that you may pay the sums due the men and take their receipts there- fore. For this purpose the sum of Two hundred & Thirty Seven dollars and 30 Cts being the amount of the pay due to Capt. Hannah and his recruits from 1 Nov^bl. to 30^th July 1794, agreeably to the said roll and which was remitted to Edward Carrington by a con- siderable time since, is now directed to be placed in your hands: it became necessary in the arrangement of the Office to pay the whole Amount to you, a sur- plus with recruits remaining being the pay of Capt. Hannah and probably of some men whom some necessity has [drawn] out of service or possibly enlisted from your command, which it will be proper for you to give information. This surplus you will ap- ply to his recruiting service. The sum hereon due Capt. Hannah will be taken in view on a final settle- ment of his accounts in this Office— The return of men enlisted by Capt. Hannah is expected to embrace all those stationed at Norfolk, in order to inform of the dates of their inlistments that you may be enabled to make up a muster call— And furnish you with some muster calls for Detachments when this present month is expired you will please to take musters of the whole troop under your com- mand, duplicates of which being transmitted & I shall remit you their pay to be disbursed by you. If you should not be possessed of the dates of their inlistments be pleased to take immediate measures to obtain them— Capt & R^h. T. Blackburn I am Sir &c Norfolk — Virginia— Joseph Howell