Edward Miller Middletown Connecticut Department of War Accountants Office April 27^th 1796 Sir Your Letter of the 25^th Inst with its inclosures I have Received, but the Recruiting Account Returned to you in my letter of the 8 Inst you have not forwarded which you will please to do and then your Account will be finally settled — I am Sir William Simmons The Att^y Gen^l of the United States Department of War Accountants Office, April 29^th 1796 Sir Major Morrison has informed me that you wished the question as regards his Claim Stating in writing before you give your decision — From the Conversation which passed between us Yesterday on that subject — I don't conceive it necessary to State the particulars of his Claim; the question is simply this extracted from the 14^th Sect of the Act making Alterations in the Treasury & War Departments, passed 8^th May 92 — precludes a Discharged Man who served as a noncommissioned officer or private from assigning any Ballance of pay which may be due to him at the time of his Discharge — Yours &c William Simmons Cap^t Jacob Slough. Department of War Accountants Office April 29^th 1796 Sir your accounts on the Books of this Office have been a longtime open, the propriety of a settlement must appear obvious to you I have therefore only to request that you will on