[1797 Captain Staats Account expences &c approv'd the War Inadmissible] The United States To Staats Morris D^r To his expences including Stage hire in travelling from Philad^a to the City of [New] York for the purpose of assisting in the Recruiting Service by the order of the Sec^y of war of the 25 Aug^t 91 numb^d 1. 7. 50 To Ditto Ditto in returning to New York from Philad^a on the Recruiting Service after having assisted in marching the Recruits of Captain Mills Com=pany by the order of the Sec^y of war of the 8^th of November 91 numbered 2. 7. 50 To Ditto Ditto in ret[urning to New York] on the Recruiting Service after having assisted Captain [undecipherable] in marching a Detachment to Philad^a as p^r the order of the Sec^y of war of the 6 Jan^y 92. N^o. 3. 7. 50 To his expences from New York to Philad^a and from thence to Lancaster with money to pay the Detachment under Major Asheton as p^r the orders of the Sec^y of war of the 16 of June 1792 N^o 4 and Major Asheton's Rec^t for the sum conv^yd . . . . . . . . . . . . 15. — Carried over $[Doll^s] 37. 50 Amount bro^t over Doll^s 37. 50 To his expences including horse hire in returning from Pitts=burg to Philad^a on the Recrui=ting Service by the ord^r of the Commander in chief dated 15 Novem=ber 1792 and numbered . . 5. 29. — To Ditto in proceeding to New York from Philad^a on the Recruiting Service as p^r the order of the Sec^y of war of the 3 of Dec^r 1792 N^o. 6. 7. 50 To Ditto in travelling from New York to Philad^o to go forward to Head Quarters by the order of the Sec^y of war of the 15 April 1793. N^o. 7. 7. 50 To Ditto in travelling from Philad^a to New York on his way to Geor=gia by the order of the Sec^y of war of the 3 July 1793 N^o. 8. 7. 50 Doll^s 89. — E Excepted Staats Morris Capt. A.D.C. Captain Staats Morris has exhibited the annexed account for expences incurred by him from August 1791 to July 1793 amounting to the sum of Eighty nine Dollars, [paid?] [undecipherable] without the express [undecipherable] of the Sec^y of War. — Cap^tn Morris has had several accounts settled at this Office within said time but never before brought forward [these] charges; the inducement he has now for exhibiting them is in consequence of his having lately understood [that] the Sec^y of War has caused officers expences of a like kind to be paid out of the contingencies of the War Department. — [Sec^y of War Rec^d this Office [undecipherable] 1797] H[undecipherable] Simmons [Sec^y?]