[Page 96 YNB01] Cap^t Ja^s Bruff Albany State of New york — Accountants Office June 11^th 1796 — Sir M^r Sam^l Lewis Clerk to D. will remit you at Albany the sum of seven hundred and fifty Dollars — Six hundreds of which are on account of the pay of yourself & the Detachment under your command for one Month & One hundred and fifty is for the Retained Bounty of your Men — and for which sums you will receipt to said Lewis to be accountable to the Accountant of the War Department; and after you have paid your Detachment you will forward your Receipts to this Office as usual — I enclose you Blank Muster, Pay and Receipt Rolls; on rec^t of which you will Muster your Detachment for the Month of May and pay them agreeably to the Pay Roll to be formed therefrom; you will please to State in the Muster Roll from whence the Men joined you, who enlisted them & that I may be enabled to make them up hereafter for any Backs — Pay or Bounty which they may have due them — accuracy in this business is highly necessary. You will please to be cautious on this head — I am &c W^m Simmons — Major Lewis Toward West point — Sir Accountants Office June 11 — 1796 — I received your letter of the 7 Inst— the Blank Muster and Pay Rolls which you have requested, were —