Constant Freeman Esq^r Accountants Office Savannah August 24^th 179[6] Georgia Sir I received your letter of the 9^th ul[timo] The money to compleat the pay, Subsistence & Forag[e] of the Troops to the 1^st June last has been forwarded to Daniel Stevens Esq^r Supervisor at Charleston. Remittance[s] to compleat their pay from time to time will take place [strikethrough: undecipherable] when circumstances will admit of the measur[e] 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 Ba[l]lance due them. However if they have any thing due th[em] will be paid at this office to them or their legal Attorney by their producing their certificates of discharges, which gen[er]ally mention the time they were paid to. The discharge signed by General Wayne is the most correct & therefore I require in every case. Soldiers have generally been allowed a premi[um] of 10 Dollars for apprehending a Deserter to be stopped from the Deserters Pay. — This charge is considered to include every expense on the part of the United States attending the tak[ing] of a Deserter. If there is any other mode of making remittanc[es] that will be more convenient for you, I will if possible adopt it. At 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 w[ould] thank you to write me fully on this subject. As regards an allowance to Ensⁿ M^cCall f[or] his Services as Pay master to the Troops at Fort Fidius I have to observe that no allowance is made to any Offic[er] in the Army for doing such Duty to so small a num[ber] of Troops as are at Fort Fidius. At the different Po[sts] occupied in the Western Country the Commanding Office[rs] (who are generally Captains or Subaltterns) do the Duty of Pay Master to their detachments without asking any Compensation If Ensⁿ M^cCall has been at any extra expence in consequence of such Duty I should think that he would be reimbursed. But as to Compensation I can at present only say I know of no precedent for allowing any. If his Services should appear a representation thereof that they are too extensive and labor[i]ous for the Captain or Subaltern at Fort Fidius to perfo[rm] I dare say he will be made an allowance. In the mean time however, he may be continued doing the Duty under these circumstances I am &c Wm Simmons Ac^t