and the detachment of Militia under your command called into service by Col^r Elmzer Sprout for the protection of Gallipolis from 11 October 1794 to 20^th April 1795 inclusive — You are held accountable for the due application thereof agreeably to the inclosed Receipt Rolls — In making the payments you will please to have in view that assignments of the pay of a Non Commissioned Officer 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 appear 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 attested by a respectable Witnesses — Where the payments are Complicated as far as you can make them — The Receipt Roll is to be transmitted to this Office for your examination, and the Balance (if any) remaining in your hands is to be refunded to the Treasury of The United States — A dispatch in Completing 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 &c Y^s William Simmons Cap^t Frederick Frye D^r 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