from New York to Westpoint is inadmissible - I therefore return you his receipt. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct. Isaac Craig Esq^r Accountants Office Pittsburgh March 17^th 1797 Sir Your Account Current has been examined, and the Balance found due you is Eight hundred & twenty nine Dollars ³/₁₀ / differing from your Statement 72 Dollars, the sum refunded you by Cap^t Bissell for the Pay & Forage of D^r George Balfour for the months of March & April 1796 which you omitted to Credit. The above Balance you will receive from Samuel Lewis Clk. W.O. to whom please to forward your Receipts therefor. The pay of the Troops up to the end of February it is expected will be forwarded by an Officer shortly for your place— I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct. Lieu^t Charles Hyde Accountants Office Detroit March 17^th 1797 Sir On the settlement of an account of Cap^t Eaton you stand charged with the sum of Two hundred and Ninety seven Dollars ⁷/₁₀ being part of the 746 ¹⁰/₁₀₀ Dol^s of which the late accountant informed you on the 1^st April 1794 you stood charged with and which Cap^t Eaton has declared on oath he never received from you— on a reference to a letter from you to the late Accountant of the 25^th April 1794— you there say you have his Receipt for the whole amount. If this is the case you are requested to forward forward it immediately, either the original or a notorial Copy thereof, which will exhonorate you from the charge— The necessity of this being complied with as early as possible— [strikethrough: often] must obvious to you, I therefore expect your answer accordingly. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct. Col. Thomas Butler Department of War Pittsburgh Accountants Office Sir March 17^th 1797 I received your letter of the 10^th instant enclosing a Receipt Roll of sundry men for their pay to the 31^st October 1796 which will be placed under examination and the proper amount passed to your Credit. It would be desirable to have all accounts of long standing settled as early as possible when your convenience will admit of it— you will please to forward them and they shall meet with an early examination. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct. The Comptroller of the Treasury Accountants Office Sir March 17^th 1797 I herewith inclose you extracts of the accounts of Abraham Hunt, Elias Daytons & John Hopkins, as they stand on the Books of this Office— By which it appears that they are considerably indebted to the United States— On their being called on for a settlement they answer that they have rendered their accounts and Vouchers at the Treasury and fully accounted for the Ball^e. should this on examination be