Rich^d S. Blackburn. D. of War Accountants Office Cap^t of Art^y & Engins May 26^th 1795 Norfolke — Sir You will receive from Edward Carrington Esq^r Dep^y the sum of nine hundred and sixty four dollars and sixty three cents being for your pay, Pay of Lieut George Handy and John Saunders, and the recruits under your command, for your and their pay for the Months of January and Febuary 1795 [undecipherable] which sum you are held accountable, and will give him duplicate receipts. It is intended that hereafter each Officer should make out his own pay roll, and transmit the same to this Office on receipt of which an examination will take place, and the amount found due thereon transmitted in the usual way — I shall therefore, inclose blank Pay Bills and Muster Rolls for that purpose also a copy of the [undecipherable] sum which you will pay agreably thereto and transmit the same to this Office for your examination. I am Sir Y^r William Simmons