W^m Skinner Esq. Accountants Office Commissioner of Loans January 27^th 1797 N^o Carolina Sir You stand charged on the Books of this Office under date of 20^th December 1790 with the sum of Seventeen Thousand three hundred twenty Dollars 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 late Army & your receipt on file. The length of time elapsed since you received this sum, makes it highly necessary that your accounts for the disbursements 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.