payments made to Contractors are to be settled at the Treasury. You will therefore render your Account there — as soon as an examination of the Account takes place the amount found due will be remitted to You — This is the mode in which all payments are made from this Office to Supervisors for Commissions. I am Sir &c William Simmons Richard Harrison Esquire. Department of War Auditor of the Treasury — Accountants' Office January 27^th 1796— Sir Enclosed is an Account, and the Vouchers accompanying it which were forwarded by George Fleming — for the purchase of Wood — at West Point, conceiving it proper that they should be settled at your Office I have directed M^r Fleming to forward the rest to you. I am Sir &c— William Simmons The Secretary of War. Department of War Accountants' Office January 28^th 1796 Sir Lieut Nehemiah Freeman in his letter to me of the 13^th Instant, mentions the Sentence of a Court Martial passed the 2^d Ult^o on three men at the Garrison of West Point, whereby it appears that they are to reimburse out of their pay as it becomes due, the Value of Certain Clothing and Arms at the Contract price — which price he desires to be informed of in order that he may be enabled to comply with the decision of the Court — I have therefore to request Sir that you will be pleased to direct that I may be furnished with the Contract prices of those Articles — To enable me to give M^r Freeman the Necessary information. — I am Sir &c William Simmons— The Secretary of War.. Department of War Accountants' Office January 29^th 1796— Sir I have the honour of enclosing to you Lieut Visscher's account of Expenditures while detained in this City attending to the Settlement of his Account as pay Master of the 3^rd Sublegion, should the charge appear to you in the same point of view, it does to me, I will thank you to approve the same in order that it may form an Item of his Account Current— now Stating. — I am Sir &c— William Simmons Richard Harrison Esq^r. Department of War Auditor of the Treasury— Accountants' Office January 29^th 1796. Sir I herewith enclose to you the additional Vouchers received from George Fleming for the purchase of Fire Wood for the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers at West Point, which I conceive are proper to be settled at your Office I am Sir &c— William Simmons.