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