[Amount of Abstract of Pay & Rations of Militia in 1790 — — — — 2750 ⁷⁰/100] Rufus Putnam Esq^r Accountants Office Marietta Sir! Your certificate lately forwarded by Col^o Sproat concerns the pay of certain Militia of Washington County for Services in the year 1790 for which a M^r Claim received the money at this office — I presume Col^o Sproat has fully informed you the circumstances relative thereto; I shall therefore merely inform you that the Certificate above mentioned was referred to the Sec^ry of Treasury, & War Departments who are of opinion that it is not so fat as that the amount can be passed to Col^o Sproats Credit — in consequence of which they directed me to make out Copies of the pay and subsistence abstracts, on which the money was issued & forward them to you, that you might annex a certificate thereon fully setting forth the circumstances relative thereto — that "each man whose name is therein mentioned has been fully settled with and paid by the Ohio Company for those services — that The United States [strikethrough: that the United States] are accordingly indemnified by the said Company from any further claims therefor and such other circumstances as will tend to throw light on the subject, which have come within your knowledge, and which you may be pleased to communicate — As the certificate is to answer as a voucher for the admission of a considerable sum of money to the Credit of Col^o Sproat, you are particularly requested to be as explicit as the nature of the case will admit of and transmit the same as early as convenient to this office. I have the honor to be &c In absence of the accountant J Hayner Pro. C.B. L^t Col^o Stephen Rochefontaine Accountants Office West Point New York August 6^th 1796 Sir! The Sec^y of the Treasury has referred your letter of the 2^d Instant with its enclosures to this Department for Consideration. I have accordingly to inform you that in my Opinion the two Bills of the Commissary should be deducted