to transmit to this Office in Order that the amount— may be placed to your Credit— I am &c. ^Wm Simmons Acct. Sergeant Philip Williams Accountants Office Fort Johnstone N. Carolina February 17^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 1^st Instant— inclosing the Muster and Pay Rolls of yourself and the Men under your Command for the Months of December 1796 and January 1797 stationed at Fort Johnstone which have been examined and the amount Sixty four Dollars you will receive from James Read Esq.^r Collector at Wilmington on giving him Receipts agreeably to my instructions to him on the subject I am &c. ^Wm Simmons Acct. Lieut Nehemiah Freeman Accountants Office Temp. Paymaster W.^t Point February 18^th 1797 Sir According to your request in your Letters of the 13^th Inst. you will receive herewith two dozen of blanks Rect. Rolls.— The Pay rolls of the Corps at West Point for the Months of November & December 1796 and January 1797 have been duly received and on examination have been found just; they are at present suspended for want of appropriations in the Treasury, as soon as any are made no time will be lost in remitting the money thro' the usual channell— I am &c. ^Wm Simmons Acct.