right amounting to 265 ⁹⁰/100 dollars I have also credited your pay for November and December 1796 am^t 80 dollars making, in the whole Two Hundred Eighty eight Dollars and Thirty Seven Cents, which sum you will receive, from Jonas Jackson Supervisor Boston on signing duplicate receipts for the same — I am &c. W^m Simmons Acc^t. Cap^t Geo: Ingersoll — Accountants Office A^t &c. West Point — February 8^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 2^d Inst and agreeably to your request inclose you your Account of Pay and Subsistence transmitted by your letter of the 6^th of Aug^t last — with respect to the sentiments contained in your letter I only remark that they are as unright as they are illiberal as may be evinced by my former communication to you on the subject of your amen^d, in which I proposed to do you all the Justice that the Law and usage of the Office would authorize, and to make you such payment as to other Officers, who were satisfied, the principle I am determined not to aviate from & I am not guided by terms. — I am &c. W^m Simmons Acc^t Maj^r Thomas Hunt — Accountants Office Sir — February 9^th 1797 You stand charged on the Books of this Office with the sum of Three Hundred and Thirty Seven Dollars & fifty seven Cents being amount paid you by