Lieut Nehemiah Freeman Accountants Office Temp^t Pay Master Sept^r 30. 1796 West Point, Sir I this moment received your letter of the 23^d Inst. And am sorry to learn that you should by any [underline: particular] request be led from the line of your duty as Pay Master. Your payment to the detachment under the command of Cap^t Littlefield was highly improper, and will create the greatest confusion in the Accounts here, as I have sent on the Money some days ago to Albany to Lieut Vischer for the Pay of all the Troops under the command of Cap^t Littlefield for the same period, this will show you the necessity of adhering strictly to the Instruct^ns you have rec^d from this Office. How it will be rectified I am at present at a loss to know I am &c. W^m Simmons