[103.] John Chester Esq^r Accountants Office Supervisor March 6^th 1797 Wethersfield Connecticut Sir I have received your letter enclosing Cartⁿ Edward Millis Rect for One hundred & twenty eight dollars ³⁰/₁₀₀, which sum will be entered to your credit on the Books of this Office — I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct Absolom Baird Esq^r Accountants Office Sir March 7^th 1797 You stand charged on the Books of this Office with the sum of 2948 ⁰⁰/₁₀₀ Dollars for Pay of the Scouts of Washington County which sum you are held accountable for the due application thereof; I have now to request that you will forward the Vouchers to exhonerate you from the charge, or refund any balance in your hands to the Treasurer of the United States. — I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Accountants Office Superintendant of Military Stores March 8^th 1797 Sir I wrote to you on the 27^th January last relative to a sum of money received by Capt John Heth of John Wilkins D^y M.G. for the Indian Department and therein pointed out agreeably to directions from the Comptroller of the Treasury the mode that was to be pursued in placing the money to the debit of the proper