[Docket: from David Henley A.w.d. / rec'd Aug 10^th] [Address: William Simmons / [undecipherable] / War Depart[ment] / [undecipherable]] [Marginal notation: David Henley / rec'd 11 aug[undecipherable]] Knoxville 17 July 1795 Sir) I received your Letter of the 30^th May with a Schedule particularizing the Sum of ten thousand seven hundred and one dollars and tender for its purposes; the above sum in Post Notes was delivered me in good order by the express Benajah Harber which I have passed to the Credit of the United States. — I delivered Cap^t Pickard five hundred dollars for the purpose of recruiting his Company, which I received by the same conveyance, and inclose you receipts for both Sums. Your remark that an estimate is no evidence of the debt, I will bear in mind, and that I have just and sufficient Vouchers to authorize me to pay any sum on account of the United States. If a regular Soldier should have a furlough for a few days is he not entitled to his Rations in that time of absence, or the pay to amount of the contract price? This was the case with the Army in the time of war, and I think it just if it should be acted upon the same principles at this time. — I am with esteem — Sir Your Humble^t David Henley [undecipherable] War[?] William Simmons Esquire —