[Docket notation on cover: Dan[?] H[undecipherable] / near[?] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] of March] West Point, March 26^th 1796 Sir, I take liberty to submit to you a statement of my account with the United States; which, as I have incurr'd sundry expenses exclusive of the payments of bounties, have a small balance remaining in my hands of the pay of recruits I have received of the Superrior of Massachusetts by order of the secretary of war an additional sum besides what I previously held; I have stated in the form of an Account Current, commencing with the remittance advanced for the recruiting service in May last. I have not brought into this statement the several receipts & disbursements on account of the pay of the recruits while at the Rendezvous; because those amounts have been already balanced, except in the case of the two deserters whose amount of pay is carried to the credit side of my present statement. Agreeably to your letter of the 10^th ultimo I have paid a premium of ten dollars to the men who assisted in apprehending Joseph Cole a deserter. Your said letter was communicated to the commandant of the corps. What order he will take for stopping his pay I am not informed. Conceiving it reasonable that, where an officer is sent on command to a remote part of the Union, & it is important that the duties of his command should be speedily commenced, I have annexed to this amount a statement of the expenses of my passage from Philadelphia to Portland, when ordered on the recruiting service; & also of my passage from Boston or Providence, when ordered to proceed with my recruits to West Point. Having no vouchers to these statements, I now swear to the truth of the several items charged in them before the commandant. The charges comprehend only the fares of the different land & water stages without, [superscript: my regard] to tavern expenses — for as I drew my rations inclusive of the time I was travelling I conceive that that allowance should serve for my subsistence, however inadequate thereto while on a journey. Should the several entries in my present statement, be found on examination to be fairly made & admitted to my credit, there will remain in my hands a balance of one hundred two Dollars & thirty six cents & one fourth. This balance I would willingly retain in my hands for a future settlement. For having obtained from the commandant a furlough to proceed into Canada & return this [undecipherable], I think it not improbable that on my return opportunity will be afforded to gain a few more recruits. I am with due respect, Sir Your very obedient servant. William Simmons Esq^r D. Hale Liut[undecipherable]