Department of War 289 Accountants Office Joshua Wentworth Esq^r Ag^t Portsmouth New Hamps January 14^th 1790 Sir The treasurer will remit you the sum of five hundred Dollars which you will please pay to Mr James Hackett being for his Salary as Commissary of the Frigate building at Portsmouth — from the 1^st of October to the 31 December 1795 due. Also the further Sum of 187⁵⁰/100 Dollars which you will please pay to Mr Edmund H. Quincy, being for his Salary as Clerk of the Naval Yard Portsmouth for the same period — for which sums you will please take duplicate Receipts — Sam. Ste^r William Simmons --- Department of War Accountants Office Pour Freeman Esq^rt Ag^t D of War Georgia January 18^th 1796 Sir My last letter to you was of the 3 and 5 Inst (duplicates of which you have recd) since which I have received duplicates of yours of the 14^th Ult^o and Circular. I now inclose you Muster Rolls for such part of the Militia and Scouts as have been deemed authorized by the President of the United States — The Balance as to Edmund Luing Twenty two thousand five hundred [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] County has been remitted by the Treasurer of the United States to Daniel Stevens Esquire at [undecipherable] Charleston So Carolina — to receive those Subject to your Order — Inclosed are the Remarks made by the Examining Clerk on the Muster Rolls and although it seems that you have placed the money in the hands of M^r Pope for the purpose of paying them I am in hopes