[223] Isaac Craig Esq^r Accountants Office Pittsburg Oct 14^th 1796 Sir I received your letter of the 7^th Inst. and have now to inform you that a warrant has issued for the sum you conceived would answer the demands of the Troops for June & July 1796, which sum of (260 Dolls.) will be remitted to you by S Lewis Clerk War Office, by this days post, to whom you will forward your duplicate receipts, holding yourself accountable for the due application thereof; and proceed to make the payments with all convenient speed. When I informed you of having accepted Capt Wade's draft on account of his pay, I did not intend that it should act as a precedent for advances of that nature. The draft of Lt Velthauser will be accordingly suspended until he arrives in this City, not feeling myself warranted in making advances without knowing the state of an Officers accounts. If you make advances of this nature they must be at your own risk; as no payments will be made here without a certificate of the Officers having the money due; which cannot be ascertained until his arrival here; as he may receive money on his way to this place, without your knowledge. I am y^r W^m Simmons Acct M^r George Claghorne Const^r Accountants Office Frigate at Boston Oct 17^th 1796 Sir I rec^d your letter of the 10^th Inst with a statement of your account for Compensation for September 1796 amounting to One hundred sixty six Dollars &⁶⁶/100: which sum you will receive from Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Supervisor at Boston on giving him duplicate receipts for the same. I am y^r W^m Simmons Acct Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Accountants Office Sup^r Boston Massachusetts Oct 17^th 1796 Sir You will receive from the Treasurer of the United States the sum of One hundred sixty six Dollars &⁶⁶/100 which you will please to pay to M^r George Claghorne Constructor of the Frigate building at Boston, being for his Compensation from 1^st to 30^th September 1796 inclusive: and take his duplicate receipts for the same. I am y^r W^m Simmons Acct