David Thompsons Department of War Pittsburgh Accountants Office Sir, November 25^th 1795 Your letter of the 9^th Inst to the Secretary of War enclosing the duplicate of your M. Rolls for October, your Recruiting Account, Account Current and the Vouchers for your Contingent expenses was received at this Office on the 14^th. The examination of which is unavoidably Suspended on Account of your Omitting to send on the Receipts for Bounty charged therein. I have taken the earliest opportunity to inform you of this circumstance, that your public Accounts may if possible be settled before you arrive at head Quarters. In the mean time I conceive it proper to inform you of the deductions made from the account transmitted by you about the 15 June last to the Secretary of War, as a considerable part of them were made from a Want of Sufficient Vouchers to Substantiate the charges and as it may probably be in your power to Send on the Vouchers with those already mentioned, or otherwise by explanation obviate the difficulties to their admission. The deductions are as follow, and first from your Recruiting Account & Viz:                                                                     Drs        Drs Amount of the Recruiting [undecipherable] Bounty 2 32 [undecipherable] 58 Jeremiah Hamilton not rec^t for bounty on muster                [undecipherable] 5 [undecipherable] 2.. Nich^s Walsh Ditto D^o    n^o 3..0..2 John Riley. not muster nor Subsist^t produced...                          10..0..2 Jn^o Falk not rec^t for bounty [only] 4 d^ys in service before d^m      10..0..2                                                                            25..1..8 Carried over Amt. of Recruiting A/C Bro^t 252 [undecipherable] Am^t Bro^t on bounty 28 [undecipherable] 8 Jonathan King, not mustered, nor Subsist^t produced - D^o 10..0..2 William Helmick D^o D^o D^o 10..0..2        48[undecipherable]                             Bounty  204 [undecipherable]                                             45[undecipherable] Total bounty & prem. adm. Drs  250[undecipherable] Next from your Contingent Acc^t Viz: Cash said to be paid in such of John Falk a desert[undecipherable] D^o    D^o in such Reg^t Britton a                    D^o [undecipherable]                                                                        Drs 6[undecipherable] There appear no vouchers for either of these two last ch[undecipherable] Your Extra charges for music, damage done by Recruits and for mending damaged Clothing [undecipherable] in all to 10-[undecipherable]-Dollars are altogether inadmissib[le] Summary of the foregoing Viz:                                                                          Drs Bounty deducted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   48. Premium D^o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   12. Cash said to be [undecipherable] in search of deserters D^o   8.[undecipherable] Extra charges rejected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   10.[undecipherable]                 Total deducted Drs [undecipherable] I am    Sir        Your most ob^dt Serv^t            William Simm[undecipherable]