Captain Alexander Gibson Department of War Stanton Accountants Office Virginia August 9^th 1796 Sir Agreeably to the Information contain[ed] in the Letter to you of the 5^th Ins^t. I enclose you a duplicate rec^t for the payment made on your account to M^r. John Boys amounting to three hundred Dollars for which sum you are held accountable on the Books of this Office. I now have to inform you that your pay Rolls have been examined and after deducting therefrom your pay to be settled in personal account, and the pay of Deserters and those absent without leave, the balance amounting to five hundred six Dollars & sixty four Cents, will be remitted to Edward Carrington Sup^r Richmond for which you will sign duplicate Receipts to be accountable for the due application thereof agreeably to the enclosed Receipt Roll for pay to the 30^th June 1796 inclusive I am &c. W^m Simmons Ac^t