[from Lt G's [undecipherable] Mate April 1^st 93] Portland April 1 1795 Sir, Inclosed is an account of my disbursements in recruiting since the first of Jany last, — With receipts for the payments on account of bounty to each individual. — You may imagine perhaps from the shortness of the time in which the sum last received has been expended, that I have been too precipitate in paying the men their bounties; — but if you compare the dates of their inlistments with those of their receipts, it will appear that most of them has been enlisted several months, previous to receiving their full bounty. — I have always endeavoured to ascertain the Men's fidelity, before I entrusted them with much of their bounty — And in cases where I have paid them the whole or a larger proportion, at one payment — their interest or connections have been such, as to leave no room for any suspicions of infidelity. — I have now forty six recruits, & have received bounty for forty five. — I am, with respect your very obedient servant Josein Howell Esquire — [undecipherable]