[Your pay as Adjutant & Quarter Master is not included in the above balance, as no Muster Rolls have yet come forward to give the necessary information on that head. — Cap^t Van Rensselaer has not resigned; — he lately settled his A/c at this Office & has had his furlough prolonged. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct Cap^t Alexander Gibson Accountants Office Staunton Virginia Oct 6^th 1796 Sir Your pay and Muster Roll to the 1^st August has been under examination, and the amount found due thereon being 532 ³/₁₀₀ D^rs will be remitted as usual to Edward Carrington Supervisor at Richmond, to whom you will give your duplicate Receipts, holding yourself accountable for the due application thereof. The inclosed Receipt Roll will account for the differences which arose on examination, which you will return to this Office when you have paid your men and obtained the signatures thereto, to be passed to your credit. The pay of Christian Goods was deducted from your former pay Roll, he being reported by you absent without leave, which in all cases are treated as desertion and their pay forfeited accordingly. — You have more serjeants than the Law will allow, notwithstanding the whole have been allowed pay as serjeants on this settlement, it cannot be done in future. You will therefore arrange them in such manner as to have only the number authorized by law in the next pay Roll — I sometime since wrote you to forward the enlistments which ought to have accompanied your recruiting account; — they have not yet arrived, and consequently cannot proceed with the examination of your accounts. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct Edward Carrington Accountants Office Supervisor Richmond Oct 6^th 1796 Virginia Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Five Hundred Thirty two Dollars & two Cents, which you will please