enclosing the Pay & muster Roll of your Detatchment for January & February 1797, which has been examined, and after deducting 5^7/100 dollars, from the Pay of J^t Robeson for the Month of February, leaving a balance due him for said peri of 20^88/100 dollars, and the pay of Fred^k Daliche, Surgeons Mate & Michael Upton private, amounts to Six hundred forty six do^7/100, which sum you will receive from Daniel Stephens Esq^r Supervisor, Charleston, on giving him duplicate receipts for the due application thereof. Sam^vc. W^m Simmons Acct. Brig^t Gen^t James Wilkinson Department of War Philadelphia Accountants Office Sir March 28^th 1797 Agreeably to request your letter of the 9^th inst with the account current have been submitted to the Secretary of War for his opinion on the charges therein, & which you say was principally expended for secret services, his ans is as follows. "The Secy of War admits the account in the expectation "that Gen^l Wilkinson will make a statement to him of "the expenditures of the money, which did not admit "of Vouchers. Signed — James McHenry You will therefore be pleased as early as convenient to give the Secy the necessary explanation that your accounts may be Credit for the sums actually paid by you for such service. Sam^vc. W^m Simmons Acct.