[undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] account of the [undecipherable] [1796 / Aug. 5] Accountants Office, 5 Aug: 1796 Sir, From your Certificate, lately forwarded, by Col: Sproat, concerning the pay of certain Militia, of Washington County, for Services in the year 1790, for which, a M^r Oliver received the Money, at this Office: I presume, Col: Sproat, has fully informed [strikethrough: you the] circumstances, relative thereto; I shall, therefore, merely inform you, that the certificate above mentioned, was referred to the Secretaries of the Treasury, and War Departments, who are of Opinion, that it is not so fully as that the amount can be passed to Col: Sproats Credit: in consequence of which, they have directed me to make out Copies of the pay [undecipherable] evidence/ abstracts on which the Money was issued, and forward them to you, that you might annex a Certificate [undecipherable] setting forth the circumstances, relative thereto, that each Man, whose name is therein mentioned, has been fully mustered with, and paid, by the [undecipherable] Company, for those Services: - 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: Sproat without [undecipherable] you are particularly requested to be as explicit, as the [interlinear insertion: annexed to the pay [undecipherable]] nature of the Case will admit of, and transmit the same, as early as convenient, to this Office. — I have the honor to be Respectfully Sir, Your ob: Serv^t In absence of the Accountant Peter Hagner [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Rufus Putnam, Esq^r Marietta