twenty Cents being for your pay and Subsistence from the 1^st April to the 30^th June 1796 incl: the time your services cease agreeably to a Letter from the Secretary at War to you dated the 11^th Inst and for which sum you will please to sign duplicate receipts — I am &c W^m Simmons — M^r Ja^s Morris Att^y at Law Broadway New York Accountants Office July 1^st 1796 — Sir Capt Staats Morris has requested that the Amount of recruiting account heretofore transmitted to this Office for 32 Dollars might be remitted to you as well as 115 D^rs for acct of M^rs Roberts the former sum is suspended on account of a want of Vouchers, but the latter sum is remitted to Inch^t Elish Esq^r Supervisor to whom you will apply for the amount giving your receipts for the same I am &c W^m Simmons Inch^t Elish Esq^r Sup^r New York Accountants Office July 1^st 1796 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One hundred & fifteen Dollars to be paid agreeably to directions to M^r Ja^s Morris Att^y at Law Broadway New York being on account of the pay of Major Rich^d B Roberts for the Months of April May & June 1796 for which you will please take his receipt and transmit it as usual to this Office I am &c W^m Simmons —