to directs. — I am Sir Y^c William Simmons [a copy] [d.] The Treasurer D. of War Accountants Office of the M^d States. June 30^th 1795 Sir Business of a public nature will require my being absent from this City for a few days, in the mean time should any Warrants be presented to you for payment, signed by the Secretary for the Department of War and Registered by Peter Hagen Clark in my Office I will countersign them immediately on my arrival in Town. I am the Y^c William Simmons Thomas Overton Esq^r D. of War Accountants Office Ins^pr. Fayetteville July 2^d 1795. Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One hundred and eighty two Dollars being for the pay of Lieu^t. Robert Rowan of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at Fayetteville from the 1^st December 1794 to the 30^th of June 1795 inclusive which sum you will please to pay to the said Lieu^t. Robert Rowan taking his receipt for the same. Should he have sailed for West Point before the receipt of this, you will refund the money without delay to the Treasurer of the United States I am Sir Y^c — William Simmons [left margin, written vertically: this letter is copied again under the 17 [undecipherable] the page]