Gate. [undecipherable] Advance the sum of two hundred, and fifty dol[lars] on account of your compensation as a Temporary Engineer fo[r] which sum you are held Accountable, and will give him duplicate receipt — I have to request that you will on re- ceipt of this hand on to this Office your Account Current Stating the monies received, and compensation up to 31^st May in order that a finale Settlement may take pla[ce] up to that day — If any balance may be due to you, you will please direct how you wish the same to be paid, and in future when you are desirous of receiving your pay, you are to State an Account, and transmit it to this Office and inform how you wish the amount to be applied. — I am Sir Y^r o^b William Simmons John Bryant. Dep^ty of War Accountant's Office Military Storekeeper May 22 1795 Springfield So I received your letter 15^th May enclosing the vouchers for Sundry payments for the Ordnance Department and have to observe that it is nec- essary that you should forward to this Office as soon as convenient — your Account Current, Stating the monies you Received, and expended since the commencement of your payments up to 30^th April 1795, in order that a finale Settlement may take place up to that day — as it is intended that in future your Accounts should be settled quarterly, you will therefore do arrange your Vouchers after 1^st Instant that you may transmit them to this Office at the end of every three months, your next Account & I would wish you to State up to 30^th June next, so as