[amount of Abstract of Pay & Rations of Militia in 1790 ..... 2750 ⁴⁷/₁₀₀] Rufus Putnam Esq.^r Accountants Office Marietta Sir! Your certificate lately forwarded by Coll.^o Sproat concerns the pay of certain Militia of Washington County for services in the year 1790 for which a Mr. Blair received the money at this Office — I presume Coll.^o Sproat has fully informed you the circumstances relative thereto; I shall therefore merely inform you that the Certificates above mentioned was referred to the Sec.^y of Treasury & War Departments who are of opinion that it is not so full as that the amount can be passed to Coll.^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 setled with and paid by the Ohio Company for those services — that The United States [strikethrough: 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 Coll.^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 P. Hagner Prin. Clk