Accounts and vouchers
Document 1796Acknowledges receipt of an account and vouchers that will be examined and credited to his account at the War Department.
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will take the opinion of the Heads of Departments and if they are of opinion that the amount should be passed to your Credit- it shall be done.
I am &c
: Wm Simmons Acct
Lieut Jonathan Robison Accountants Office
Baltimore Sept 17. 1796
Sir!
I received your Letter of the 12th inst. enclosing the pay Roll of yourself and men for August 1796 which has been examined & amounts to one hundred Dollars & six Cents (you having charged James Bentley's pay too short) which sum you will receive from John Kilty Esqr, Supervisor Maryland, as well as the sum of twenty six Dollars on account of your pay for this month. You will therefore observe to give duplicate receipts for each sum to be accountable as usual. Sam &c
Wm Simmons
John Kilty Esqr Accountants Office
Supervisor Sept 17. 1796
Maryland
Sir!
The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of one hundred twenty six Dollars & 6/100 which you will please to pay to Lieut Jona Robison of Baltimore
6/100 One hundred Dollars & 6/100 thereof being for the pay of himself and men for August 1796 and the remaining 26 dollars on account of his pay for this month; for both which sums you will take his duplicate receipts separately to be accountable therefor. Sam &c
Wm Simmons [undecipherable]
John Chester Esqr Accountants Office
Supervisor Sept 19. 1796
Weatherfield
Connecticut
Sir!
I received your letter of the 15th inst. enclosing Captain Annate G: Mitchells, receipt for fifty Dollars and seventy four Cents which sum will be entered to your Credit on the Books of this office I am &c
Wm Simmons
Acct
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Acknowledges receipt of an account and vouchers that will be examined and credited to his account at the War Department.
Date
09/16/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1796091621955
Page start
196
Notable persons
John Habersham
William Simmons
Collector of Customs
Notable locations
Savannah, Georgia
Accountants Office
Notable items
account
vouchers
examination

