I have particularly to request that you will lose no time in appropriating this money on its arrival; but proceed immediately to make the payments as far as it will go — Great complaints are daily making at this Office on account of the arreares 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 earlier the remedy is administered the better. It would be an agreeable circumstance, were more frequent communications from you to arrive 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. You will on 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. 5^th 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 30^th of September in the present year. I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t. Lieu^t I. Guimpe Accountants Office Baltimore Nov 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 I send you [undecipherable] Muster, Pay, & Receipt Rolls. I am &c W^m Simmons Acc^t. Nicholas Fish, Esq^r Accountants Office Sup^r New York Nov. 7^th 1796 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Forty eight Dollars being for the Bounty & Premium of three Recruits, which you will please to pay to Capt. Staats Morris of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers, and take his Receipts for the same. I am &c Peter Hagner Prin^l Clk. Capt. Staats Morris Accountants Office New York Nov. 7^th 1796 Sir I have received your letter of the 5^th Instant enclosing the Inlistment — your recruiting account amounting to Forty eight Doll^rs has been examined; but cannot ascertain whether Cornelius Lavery was duly mustered, not having the Muster Roll for October. I have admitted the Premium, but should he desert before mustered, it will be deducted from a future settlement. Agreeably to your request the amount has been transmitted to Nicholas Fish Esq^t Supervisor of New York, and on the receipt of the same you will please sign duplicate receipts I am &c Peter Hagner Prin^l Clk