N^o 2 Greenville July 5, 1796 Sir I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 8^th of April. 21 of May. 4 of June and 11 of them with their enclosures and thank you for sending me the [undecipherable] bills so early, as was the first that [undecipherable] this place. I transmit a copy of your letter with the direction for the attorney general on the forage collection and your letter to [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. This has been completely set them aside, as not thinking the rate of a [undecipherable] Pay and Quartermaster and directed me to pay them 10 dollars [undecipherable] the [undecipherable], forage money agrees to the order given for all the last [undecipherable] which you will find [undecipherable], with an account. An 822 men are in your Office, those [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable], but after much debate [undecipherable] always, I felt in perfect [undecipherable] responsible, and paid [undecipherable]. I have called on the [undecipherable] Paymasters to this [undecipherable], and they are in hands in [undecipherable] but some further time will be necessary for them to make a Circuit to all the garrisons on the [undecipherable] with to receipt the numerous liabilities and render their accounts complete. I have met with nothing which forms to present more difficulty than your request that [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. Of it is a [undecipherable] payments. The thing with [undecipherable] is the officers estimates and to be furnished as [undecipherable] official documents for [undecipherable] in that of a [undecipherable] as the [undecipherable] demand of all the Garrisons [undecipherable] that they could not be collected and deposited in less than 30 days. 25 days more would be necessary to convey them to Philadelphia, in all about 55 days more would elapse [undecipherable] you could [undecipherable] with and from thence to those quarters. This would consume 110 days during which the [undecipherable] we then if the liquor would be to be [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] up or sold, would probably as many or perhaps twice as many would be [undecipherable], men given, [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] answer the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. I think not. — These difficulties however call in [undecipherable] [undecipherable], [undecipherable] by enlisting men for five years. A [undecipherable] and best [undecipherable] for the service in this Country. [undecipherable] had it been for ten it would be just twice as advantageous. I am very respectfully Sir your most obedient Humble Serv^t G Swan [William Simmons Esq^r. accountant War Department] [Col. [undecipherable] Au 8^th Aug 1796 Am. A [undecipherable]]