[for the use of the recruiting service for which sum take his receipts to be accountable for the due cation thereof. - I am Sir &^c William [signature]] D of War: Accounta[nt] John Neville, Esq^r April 17[undecipherable] Loan Office Charleston S. Carolina Sir You stand cha[rged on] the Books of this Office under Date of 6^th April 1[undecipherable] the sum of nine hundred and nine dollars whi[ch was] received on a Warrant of that Date, for two m[onths pay] of the Officers and one monthly pay and Boun[ty] dollars each to the Non Commissioned Office[rs &] privates of a Company of [undecipherable] Infantry direc[ted to be] raised in South Carolina under the Comma[nd of] Capt Richard Brook Roberts for which you were to be accountable for the payment to Roberts, but as you have never forwarded his and Cap^t Roberts in the Statement of his Ac[counts] credits no sum received of you, I am at a [loss to] know how the money has been appropriated — informati[on on this] head will be necessary to exonerate you from [this] charge. — I am Sir &^c William [signature] [Dep^t of War Accou[ntant] Cap^t Mich^l Halteisen. April [undecipherable] Fort Johnson S. Carolina Sir Your letter of th[e undecipherable]]