Since my leter to you of the 3^d Instant I have to inform you that an examination of your Recruiting Accounts have taken place by which there Appears a Balance against of the United States of 185 [undecipherable] — which sum you now stands charged with. Your Contingent Account cannot be admitted until some explanation from you arrives how the sum of [undecipherable] you charge as paid to Salmon Clark, has been expended. the account and Vouchers for the expenditures thereof, is necessary and your Certificate thereon of the justness of the Charges. — Sam Y^s — William Simmons — P.S. Inclose you have to Copy of your Account Current as before for your government. — Leu^t Nehemiah Freeman D^o War Accountants Office                                            West Point        July 15^th 1795 Sir Yesterday I wrote and informed you of the money being forwarded for the pay of the Troops at West Point together with Receipt bills for the same — but unfortunately the Mails has scarcely been closed before it was discovered that the Receipt bills for the pay of the Garrison up to the 30^th May were left behind — I now forward them and hope they will arrive time enough to prevent any apprehensions for their safety It is my wish that the pay of the whole Garrison at West Point Should commence on the same day (say the 1^st July) and a good number have arrived there in the months of June and July who must have pay or arrearages of Pay due to them — It may therefore