[344] forget to settle at the Treasury, but as M^r Hodgdon's appointment will not warrant his making any farther payments to be settled at this Office, I therefore submit to the Sec^y of War whether in the present instance it would not be proper to advance of the Treasury as rendered by M^r Hodgdon and let the whole be charged to the Contingencies of the War Department without discounting the Vouchers, and that in future he may be directed to refer any claims against this Department immediately here for settlement, that the accounts may all be entered under the same head of expenditures without his interposing & making the advances. W^m Simmons Acct [P^d 22 by [undecipherable] The Sec^y of War] Accountants Office Jan^y 16^th 1796 I certify that there is due to Lieut Col^l [undecipherable] the sum of Sixty [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] being for his pay & Subsistence for Nov^r & Dec^r 1796, which sum is payable to Mess^rs [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] & [undecipherable: probable reading Hargroves] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] per Order [P^d [undecipherable] The Sec^y of War] W^m Simmons Acct Accountants Office Jan^y 29^th 1797 I certify that there is due to Lieut [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the sum of [undecipherable] Dollars, being for his pay & [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] August [undecipherable] inclusive, which sum is payable to [undecipherable: probable reading Hargrove] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [P^d [undecipherable] The Sec^y of War]