thirty dollars to be transmitted to Augusta De Grasse, being for his Compensation as temporary Engineer from the 1^st of October to 31^st December 1795 inc. - for which sum you will take his receipts. - - I am &c William Simmons Thomas Holt Esq^r. New London Virg^a Department of War Accountants Office January 7^th 1796- Sir In answer to your letter of [the] 7^th October 1795 I have to inform you that your Orders drawn on me in the amount of 1528⁶⁵/100 Dollars have all been paid, and that you will now receive a post Note in your favor for the sum of 651⁷⁵/100 Dollars the whole amount-ing to 2180⁴⁰/100 Dollars being the amount of your Estimate for September 1795 for which sum of 2180⁴⁰/100 Dollars you are requested to send forward your receipts immediately, if it is your wish to have the Orders and receipts for payments returned to you it shall be done - you will also receive the further sum of 923⁵²/100 Dollars, for which you will also send your receipts, being the amount of your Estimate for the month of October 1795 - your Estimates for the month of November and December 1795 have not yet come to hand - When you forward the Estimates for these months I will thank you to inform me if it will not answer to transmit the Money through the hands of Edward Carrington Esq^r. Supervisor for the State of Virginia, this is the channel through which we transmit all Money to that State, and it will be much more desirable, than to admit payment of your several Drafts at this Office in the manner you have drawn. This [Margin note written sideways: the receipt of this letter of the 25^th July [undecipherable]] will much facilitate the forwarding the Money to you which can be done immediately on the Receipt of your Estimates - I am Sir &c William Simmons The Sec^ry of War - Department of War Accountants Office January 8^th 1796- Sir On the 14^th April 1795 immediately after my Appointment to this Office, an account was presented to me by a M^r John Nicholson, charging his services as a Superintendant and Inspector of Arms, from the 12^th of July 1794 to the 31^st March 1795 at the rate of 70 Dollars P^r Month, amounting to 606⁶⁶/100 Dollars with the following Certificate annexed thereto - Viz - Philad^a April 11^th 1795 - I Certify that in " consequence of a written order received from the late " Secretary of War, I notified John Nicholson of his " appointment of Superintendant of Armourers, and " [strikethrough: and] that his pay as such, should commence on " the 12^th of July 1794 as above stated - (Signed) Sam^l Hodgdon On a reference to your Office the following Note was made - War Office 14^th Apr. 1795 } On comparing the records of the War Office, I Certify, that the above certificate of Samuel Hodgdon is true in all its parts - (Signed) John Stagg Jr. Ch Clk- from