[216] Capt. Richard H. Greaton Accountants Office Boston Oct. 26^th 1796 Sir I rec.^d your letter of the 18^th inst enclosing your account for pay & Subsistence for September 1796 which has been examined & amount to fifty three Dollars & ⁵⁰/100, which sum you will receive from Jonathan Jackson Esq. Sup.^t of Massachusetts on giving him duplicate Receipts for the same. As respects your allowance of Wood, it is not settled at this Office. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct Jonathan Jackson Esq. Accountants Office Sup.^t Boston Oct. 26^th 1796 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Fifty three Dollars & fifty Cents, which you will please to pay to Capt. Richard H. Greaton at Boston, being for his pay & Subsistence for September 1796 & take his duplicate receipts for the same. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct Lieut. Nehemiah Freeman Accountants Office Comp^st Pay Mast^r West Point Oct. 29^th 1796 Sir I received your letter of the 21^st Inst enclosing one to you from Capt. Staats Morris on the subject of my disallowing ten Dollars of his Account charged for his Expenses while remaining in New York for the money of the Corps — In answer to which I have to observe that at the time the allowance of Ten Dollars was first granted, it was thought sufficient to defray the Expenses of [underline: Transportation] from West Point to New York & back which was all that was contemplated. Nothing was then mentioned of the expenses while in New York. Capt. Morris having waited there a short time more than other Officers in that kind of Business; could not have authorized any additional charge. Conceiving the Ten Dollars a sufficiency I cannot allow more, and as this sum is passed to your credit on the Books of this Office — The Account cannot be return'd as it is a Voucher for the Entry, but enclose you a Copy of it — . I return you the account of Stewart Moore for making a regimental Coat — It not being proper to be settled at this Office, having no head of expenditure on these Books, under which a charge of this kind would be proper P.S. You will please to pay Adjutant Lovell the sum of Thirty eight Dollars ⁵⁰/100 being the Balance of his account of Recruiting Contingencies, for which please take his receipt. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct Isaac Craig Esq. Accountants Office Pittsburg Oct. 29^th 1796 Sir I received your letter of the 21 Inst — Lieut. Polhemus has not yet called at this Office for a Settlement: the thirty Dollars are not yet passed to your credit. The Account of Jesse Lukens will also remain unnoticed until I find he has as much due to him as you advanced — in which case it will be passed to your credit. The Surplus Money remaining in your hands after paying the troops for June & July, you will appropriate to paying them for subsequent months I am &c W^m Simmons Acct