[171] at West Point, for the money placed in your hands by him as well as that remitted to you for the Pay of the Corps for the month of May by rendering an account Current charging the monies paid / for which proper vouchers must accompany the account / and crediting the monies received. No charges are to be introduced into the account but for such Payments as have been made to absentees for the Corps & for Contingencies therefor, for which you have received Directions from this Office. The Balance remaining in your hands you will pay to M^r Freeman taking his Rec^t the account to be Subject to a revision at this Office. I am &c W^m Simmons A^c Captain Donald G Mitchell Weathersfield Connecticut Accountants Office Aug^t 13^th 1796 Sir I have received your letter of the 12^th inst. and agreably to your request have transmitted to John Chester, Supervisor, Connecticut the sum of Forty Dollars being for your Pay for the month of July 1796. on receiving the same from him you will please to sign duplicate receipts P.S. At the end of every month you will please remind me of your pay? it shall be punctually transmitted. I am &c W^m Simmons Ac^t John Chester Esq^r Supervisor Weathersfield Connecticut Accountants Office Aug^t 13^th 1796 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Forty Dollars being the pay of Donald G. Mitchell Captain in the Corps of A & Engineers for the month of July 1796; which sum you will please to pay him and take his duplicate receipts for the same I am &c W^m Simmons Ac^t