self, Ensign Gilberton Payton 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 period and amount which is to serve you as a form in future, for it is in- tended 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 exami- nation will take place and the amount thereof trans- mitted in the usual manner. I am &c Y^rs William Simmons [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 Saler, a Sergeant in the 1^st United States Regi- ment under the command of Brigadier General Hamner, administers on the Estate of several deceased Soldiers, to the rest of whom balances appear 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 &c. William Simmons [S]amuel Meredith Esq^r D. of War Accountants Office [Treasurer] April 25^th 1795 Sir Inclosed is a Receipt of John Habersham Collector Savannah for eighteen Doll^rs