early as possible transmit your accounts and vouchers to this office post under cover to the Secretary of War — when they are received an examination will take place and you will be informed of it. You will please also an Account Current shewing the sums you have received and from whom and the payments made. I am &c William Simmons Caleb Swan Esq^r Department of War P.M.G. of the Army Accountants Office, April 30^th 1794 Sir I received your letters of the 15^th Ult^o & inst together with your Abstract of payments made & the papers accompanying the same. I have not had time to examine into the propriety of the payments to Capt Guion & prior for doing the [undecipherable: extra] adjoin'g Duty only — when it is done I will inform you of the result — I have represented to the Sec^ry of war the necessity for a making good the deficiency of the Estimates for the Army in 1794 to replace the Monies you have advanced for Objects in the Quarter Masters and other Departments from the Treasury where alone advances on it to be made The Secretary of Way has wrong informed you that the pay sent on for November. No money having ever been forwarded to you for that [strikethrough: purpose] Month — But few of your Bills have as yet been presented for payment — when they are due honor shall be paid to them — However the part of your Letter which relates to your being enabled to let a further sum in Bills to the Secretary of War who will give the necessary information on that head, it is not of [undecipherable: in my]