self, Ensign Yelverton Peyton and the recruits under his command, for January, February and March 1795 inclusive— for which sum you are accountable for the disbursement thereof agreeably to the enclosed receipt-roll— I enclose you a pay roll for the above periods and amount which is to serve you as a form in future, for it is intended that every Officer is to make out his pay-roll and transmit it to this Office at the expiration of every two Months accompanied with the musters, when an examination will take place and the amount thereof transmitted in the usual manner. I am Sir Y^c William Simmons The Secretary of War. D of War Accountants Office April 25^th 1795. Sir By the inclosed papers that you transmitted to me Yesterday it appears that John Salor, a ^late Sergeant in the 1^st United States Regiment under the command of Brigadier General Harmer administered on the Estates of Several deceased Soldiers, to the most of whom balances appears to be due from the United States, as will appear from the inclosed list extracted from the Accounts of Balances due to said Regiment. — I am Sir Y^c— William Simmons Samuel Meredith Esq. D of War Accountants Office & Treasurer Sir April 23. 1795. Inclosed is a Receipt of John Habersham Collector Savannah for eighteen Dollars and seventy five cents, also a Warrant for that amount being for the incidental and contingent expenses of the Department to which Warrant the receipt is to be annexed, agreeably to request of the Comptroller of the Treasury. I am Sir Y^c— William Simmons Capt. Rich. L. Blackburn D of War Accountants [Office] Norfolk Virginia Sir April 27^th [1795] It is intended in the future, that each Officer is to make out their pay rolls and transmit one of them together with a Muster to this Office at the expiration of every two Months when an examination will take place and the amount thereof transmitted through the usual Channels. I therefore enclose you some blank pay rolls for that purpose.— I am Sir Y^c— William Simmons Lieu^t Co Thomas Butler: D of War Accountants [Office] Pittsburgh April 27^th [1795] Sir The Bearer hereof the David Jones has charge of one thousand Dollars for use of the recruiting Service is to be delivered to you which sum you are held accountable, to be applied in like manner to the former sum sent you of [undecipherable] Dollars and agreeably to the directions of the late Accountant of the 30^th October last, to which I refer you strictly to attend to in recruiting—