therefore to Request you will as soon as possible transmit to this Office your account of expenditures accompanied with the necessary Vouchers — that the same may undergo an examination, & if found right pass to your account on the Books of this Office, from the length of time elapsed since you received the money renders it highly necessary that an immediate settlement should take place I am &c W^m Simmons Acct David Shepard Esq^r Department of War Late Lieut of Ohio C^o. Accountants Office Sir February 21. 1797 You stand charged on the Books of this Office with several Sums of Money received by you in the Years 1792 & 1793, and for which you have rendered no account for the expenditure thereof. I have therefore to request you will without loss of time forward your Account with the necessary Vouchers to this Office that the same may be examined & found free of errors passed to your credit, from the length of time elapsed since you received this money, you will see the necessity that an immediate settlement should take place. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct Captⁿ Alexander Gibson Accountants Office Staunton Virginia February 23^d 1797 Sir You will agreeably to your request receive from Edward Carrington Esq^r Supervisor at Richmond the Sum of Eight Hundred Dollars on account