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" [strikethrough: allows] allows the amount of six monthes Pay and Subsistence Sam &c. W^m Simmons Acct.