for which you will please give him duplicate Receipts to be ac- countable — As a long time has elapsed since any of your accounts have been received and there being frequent applications at the Office for information which cannot be obtained without them — I have to request that you will as speedily as possible transmit your account Current and the Vouchers which are proper to accompany the same by the first Opportunity — I am Sir &c W^m Simmons Of War. Accountants Office En^o Charles Masters October 10. 1795 Carlisle. Sir, The Secretary of War having ordered several Detachments of Recruits to pass your said Carlisle and proceed from thence under the Command of Cap^t M^cIlwain to the Army — It is necessary that they should receive any arrears of Pay due to them before they leave Carlisle and be settled with up to the first of next Month — for which purpose the Secretary of War has issued a Warrant in your favor, the amount of which being eight hundred Dollars will be delivered to you by the Trea- surer having Major En^o Nicholls to whom you will give your dupli- cate Receipts to be accountable for the due application thereof — You will on the Arrival of the Recruits muster each Detachment separately taking duplicate Muster Rolls, one Roll of which is to be by you forwarded to Call^t Swan Esq^r & also to Col^l Platt Masters of the Army for his Government — You will please be careful in noting on the Muster Rolls the time each man received his pay and any other circumstances which may be in his favor — You are also to cause Muster Rolls to form Pay Rolls for the pay due them up to the time before mentioned and from the Pay Rolls make out [undecipherable] Rolls for which purpose you have herewith Blanks mus- ter and Pay Rolls and Blank Receipt Rolls — As the Recruits who will arrive have never received any pay through this Office, The Commanding Officer will give you information about what (if any) they may have received from the Officer who enlisted them — One