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 in the Books of this Office, from the length of time elapsed since you received the money renders it highly necessary that an imme=diate 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 February 21^st 1797 Sir 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. Cap^tn. Alexander Gibson Accountants Office Staunton Virginia February 23^rd 1797 Sir You will agreeably to your request receive from Edward Carrington Esq^r. Supervisor at Rich=mond the Sum of Eight Hundred Dollars on account for which sum you will be held accountable on the Books of this Office. You will accordingly grant your Receipt to him therefor. — I am &c. W^m Simmons Ac^t. Edwards Carrington Esq^r. Accountants Office Super^r. Rich^d. Virginia February 23^rd 1797 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Eight hundred dollars, to be paid to Cap^tn. Alexander Gibson at Staunton, which sum he is to be held accountable for, and will give you his Receipts accordingly. — I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct. Nicholas Fish Esq^r. Accountants Office Super^r. New York February 17^th 1797 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Eight hundred and Eighty one Dollars and forty one Cents, being for the Pay and Forage of the Officers and for the Pay of the Non Com=missioned Officers and privates of the Corps of Artil=lerists and Engineers Stationed at West Point for the Month of January 1797 which sum you will please to pay to Lieutenant Nehemiah Freeman Tempo=rary Pay Master to the said Corps, taking his dupli=cate Receipts for the due application thereof. — I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct.