Alexan. McGregor Esq^r D of War Accountants Office May 5^th 1795 Sir You having received from the department the sum of 3235 dollars being for the pay &c of sundry detachments of Kentucky Militia &c [undecipherable] hereunto for their service in the Years 1792, 3. 4. and 1795 you are held accountable for the due application thereof conformably to the Receipts rolls you are now [undecipherable] of— In making the payments you will please to have in view the Act of [undecipherable] passed 8^th May 1792 which enacts that no Assignment of Pay after 1^st [undecipherable] show on that year by a Non Commissioned Officer or private shall be valid & if one of the Claimants should not be able to come forward, in such cases of applications made by virtue of Power of Attorney it ought to [undecipherable] that the money is to be received for the use of the Soldier, and to be properly acknowledged— Particularly the Receipts you are to observe that where the signature is not written it is to be witnessed by a reputable [undecipherable] whose receipts are to be deposited in this Office for your examination and the balance of any remaining due to the United States is to be refunded to the Treasurer of the United