[Duplicate of same copy —] Capt Mich^l Matterson Charlestown Accountants Office July 6^th 1796 Sir, M^r Frederick Dalcho Surgeon's Mate being about to proceed to Charlestown there to remain under your Command, I conceive it proper that you should be informed, that he has given a power of Attorney for three hundred and fifty one dollars to be paid at this office out of his pay and forage as the same becomes due which will be accordingly done when ever you forward the Muster Roles You will therefore not make any payments to him until you receive directions from this Office. I am &c In the absence of the Acco^t Peter Hagner P^r Cl^k Capt Edw^d Millers West Point Accountants Office 6 July 1796 Sir, In the absence of the Accountant I have to inform you that agreeably to his Letter to you of the 30^th Ulto — your Recruiting account has been under examination and the result is that the amount thereof cannot be passed to your Credit for the following reasons — John Verder has not been mustered, and there is no certificate of the Magistrate of his being an able bodied Man. — No Receipts of the Magistrate for attesting the Soldier — No Inlistments accompanying the Account. That part of the Account for apprehending, W^m Sewards