The Secretary of War Accountants Office Sir March 9^th 1797 I have to request that you will be pleased to give [strikethrough: me] the necessary directions for furnishing me with a list of the Names & rank of such Officers, who may have been deranged under the Act " To ascertain and fix the Military Establishment of the United States" and to whom the act of the 3^d March 1797 "To ascertain and fix the Military Establishment of the United States" allows the amount of six months Pay and Subsistence Sam^l &c. W^m Simmons Acct. Col^o David Henley M.U.S. Department of War Knoxville Accountants Office Sir March 10^th 1797 I wrote to you the 10^th Ult^o since which I have received none of yours Letters. I herewith enclose you a few printed Copies of the "Act to ascertain and fix the Military Establishment of the United States" passed on the 3^d Inst — for your government — Sam^l &c. W^m Simmons Acct. Isaac Craig Esq^r Department of War Pittsburgh Accountants Office Sir March 10^th 1797 Herewith I enclose for your information