and the detachment of Militias under your command called into service by Col.^o Ebenezer Sproat for the protection of Gallipolis from 11 October 1794 to 30^th April 1795 incl.^d You are held accountable for the due application thereof agreeably to the inclosed Receipt Roll. — In making the payments you will please to have in view that; assignments of the pay of a Non Commissioned Officers or private are not Valid — If some of the Claimants should not be able to come forward in such cases if application is made by a power of Attorney it ought to express that the money is to be Received for the use and benefit of the Soldiers, and to be properly acknowledged before a Magistrate in taking the Receipts it is to be observed that where the Signature is not written it is to be Witnessed by a respectable evidence — when the payments are compleated as far as you can make them — The Receipt Roll is to be transmitted to this Office, for your exoneration and the Balance (if any) remaining in your hands is to be refunded to the Treasurer of The United States — As dispatch in compleating the payments is highly Necessary It is expected that no exertions on your part, will be wanting to have the same effected as soon as possible. — I am Sir Y.^c — William Simmons Capt. Frederick Frye D. of War — Accountants' Office Salem, Massachusetts. July 9. 1795. Sir The Treasurer has remitted to Nathaniel Gorham Esq.^r Supervisor at Boston to be transmitted to you the sum of One hundred four dollars and seventy Cents, being for the pay of yourself and Recruits for May & June 1795 agreeably to the pay Roll forwarded by you — for which sum you are accountable to take the money Receipts on the inclosed Roll to be transmitted to this Office for your exoneration. — I am Sir Y.^c — William Simmons — Nath.^l Gorham. Esq.^r D. of War Accountants' Office Sup.^r Boston. — July 9.^th 1795 — Massac.^tts Sir The Treasurer has remitted to you to be transmitted to Capt. Frederick Frye at Salem the sum of One hundred four Dollars 70 Cents; being for the pay of himself and Recruits for May and June 1795, for which sum please take his Rec.^t to be accountable to this Office for the due application thereof. — I am Sir Y.^c — William Simmons Capt. Rich.^d J Blackburn D. of War Accountants' Office New York Sir The Treasurer has remitted to Nicholps Fishs Esq.^r to be delivered to you the sum of Two hundred and forty Dollars, being for January and February 1795 for which sums please sign Duplicate Receipts. — I am Sir Y.^c — William Simmons