Accountants Office August 2^d 1796 Lieut^t Manning I Bisher West Point New York Sir I received your letter of the 30^th ult^o — in answer to which I have to inform you that Captain Millers recruits have been paid by him up to the 1^st of May before he marched them to West Point — If he has made any further payments information must be obtained from him — you will therefore please muster the men and make out a pay roll agreeably thereto, and if on examination here any errors should be discerned they will be rectified before the money is remitted — Major Peters rec^d the Balance of your pay & Sub^s from 1^st Feb^y to 30^th June 1796 incl. agreeably to your order which after deducting the advance you received amounted to one hundred & thirty two Dollars. I am &c. In absence of the Accountant Peter Hagner [undecipherable] Elk^s