kind, proof is required of the prisoner of the facts he alleges. If he can produce none, then he must make deposition of the circumstances attending his Capture, relating particularly where he was taken, what Company he belonged to at the time, how he was released, when and when he arrived from Captivity to his place of Residence; and the pay he received, and from who. This done and the deposition transmitted to this Office, the amount found due will be paid him. Sam &c. Wm Simmons Acct Nicholas Fish Esq^r Sup^t New York & Gov^r Accountants Office Aug 22. 1796 The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Thirty two Dollars, which you will please to pay to Captain Staats Morris at West Point, being due to him for Bounty paid two Recruits & premium for enlisting them; and take his Duplicate Receipts for the same. Sam &c. W^m Simmons Ac^c Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Sup^t Boston Accountants Office Aug 24^th 1796 Sir! I received your Letter of the 17 inst enclosing Caleb Gibbs' receipt for one hundred & eighty seven Dollars &c: which sum will be passed to your Credit in the Books of this Office. Sam &c. W^m Simmons Ac M^rs Sally Greaton Marblehead Massachusetts Accountants Off[ice] Madam I received your letter of the 18 inst and agreeably to your request you will receive from Jon^th Jackson Esq^r Supervisor Boston the sum of ninety dollars on acc^t of your husbands pay. For which sum you will give as usual your receipts. Captain Greaton to be held accountable. Sam. W^m Simmons Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Sup^t Boston Accountants Office Aug 24. 1796 Sir You will receive from The Treasurer of the United States the sum of ninety Dollars to be paid to M^rs Sally Greaton on account of her Husband's Richard H Greaton's pay as Captain in the Service of the United States, he to be accountable, for which sum you will take her receipts accordingly. Sam &c. W^m Simmons Constant Freeman Esq^r Savannah Georgia Accountants Office August 24^th 179[6] Sir I received your letter of the 2[undecipherable]^th ult. The money to compleat the pay, Subsistence & Forage of the Troops to the 1^st June last has been forwarded to Daniel Sivens Edg^r Supervisor at Charleston. Remittances to compleat their pay from time to time will take place [strikethrough: at such time] when circumstances will admit of the measure. The pay Master has not yet settled his accounts for the period that will embrace Keppard & Whites Discharges. I cannot therefore answer your question relative to any Balance due them. However if they have any thing due them it will be paid at this office to them or their legal Attorney by their producing their certificates & discharges, which generally mention the time they were paid to. The discharge signed by General Wayne is the most correct & therefore I require it in every case. Soldiers have generally been allowed a premium of 10 Dollars for apprehending a Deserter, to be stopped from the [undecipherable] deserter Pay. — This charge is considered to include every expense on the part of the United States attending the taking of a Deserter. If there is any other mode of making remittances that will be more convenient for you, I will if possible adopt it — present it appears to me a tedious Job for you to go to Charleston to receive every remittance that takes place from this Office. I will thank you to write me fully on this subject. As regards an allowance to Ens^t M^cCall for his Service as Pay Master to the Troops at Fort Fidelius I have to observe that no allowance is made to any Officer in the Army for doing such Duty to so small a number of Troops as are at Fort Fidelius. At the different Posts occupied in the Western Country the Commanding Officer