and Sixty six Cents being the amount transmitted you by the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of discharging the arrears of Pay & subsistence due the Commissioned, Non Commissioned Officers & privates of the N. Carolina Line of the Army & your receipts on file The length of time elapsed since you received this sum, makes it highly necessary that your accounts for the disbursement thereof should be rendered and settled, I have therefore to request that you will as early as convenient transmit them to this Office for that purpose, that the proper amount may be entered on the Books of this Office — I am &c W^m Simmons Acct — Cap^t J^no Buchanan, Baltimore Accountants Office January 27^th 1797 You stand charged on the Books of this Office with considerable sums of money received a long time since, I have to request you will as speedily as possible forward your Account and vouchers to this Office to account for the same either by procuring the necessary vouchers or refunding the Balance to the Treasurer of the United States that your Account may be closed, your attention to this object is particularly requested as early as may be — I am &c W^m Simmons Acct — Maj^r Joseph Shaylor Accountants Office Fort Washington January 28^th 1797 On examination of your Accounts and vouchers transmitted to this Office by M^r Swan it appears that the receipts of 35 of the Recruits enlisted by you in March April and May 1791, for Bounty have not been forwarded, if you are in possession of those receipts you will please to transmit them as soon as possible, if not it will be necessary before the amount can be placed to your credit in the Books of this Office, that you Attest before a Magistrate your having paid these Recruits their respective Bounties as charged in your Account. There are eight of the receipts forwarded that are insufficient having no witnesses to the marks of the signers. There are also two charges in your contingent Account for carriage and shoes amounting to [undecipherable] Dollars for which no vouchers have been forwarded it will also be necessary that you attest having actually paid these monies and forward such attestations as soon as possible to this Office. I inclose you a list of the Recruits whose Receipts are wanting, also a list of the names of such as are defective for your government. I am &c W. Simmons Acct Cap^t Hugh Cabarton Accountants Office January 28^th 1797 You stand charged on the Books of this Office with a considerable sum of money received a long since, I have to request you will as speedily as possible forward your Account and vouchers to this Office to account