I have particularly to request that you will lose no time in appointing this money on its arrival, but proceed immediately to make the payments as fast as it will go — Great complaints are daily making at this Office on account of the arrearages due; many Officers and Soldiers affirming that they received no pay for the whole of the present year, tho they left Head Quarters in August & September: this circumstance will no doubt be communicated to Congress, therefore the sooner the remedy is administered the better. It would be an agreeable circumstance, were more frequent communications from you to advise here: It is now a long time since I have had any of your accounts or even a line from you, this leaves me utterly in the dark relative to the payments to the Army of which I should be frequently informed. Upon the receipt of the sum before mentioned from Capt Turner give him your receipts to be by him forwarded to this Office for his exoneration. I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t Richard Harrison Esq^r Accountants Office Auditor of the Treasury Nov^r 5. 1796 Sir I have the honor to transmit you herewith for examination at the Treasury the Accounts of the War Department for settlements made at this Office in the Quarter commencing the 1^st of July & ending the [undecipherable] of September in the present year. I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t Paul A [undecipherable] Accountants Office Baltimore Nov^r 5 Sir Your Muster Roll was handed to me by the Sec^y of War which I return to you to swear to it before a Magistrate, from which you are to make out a Pay Roll and forward both to this Office, when the amount will be remitted. Enclosed