seven Dollars & fifty Cents, which sum will be [passed?] to the Credit of your account on the Books of this Office I am Sir Peter Hagner Pr. Clk Matthew Brown Jun Esq. Accountants Office Rome, State of New York April 25^th 1797 Sir The Accountant being absent I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17^th Inst. enclosing the account of James Gould for carrying the Mail from Rome to Oswego which I have submitted to the Secretary of War and taking the distance as well as ever other circumstance attending the Journey into view he of opinion that he should be allowed but forty Dollars as a Com= =pensation for himself and Assistant. This sum you will ac= =cordingly receive from Samuel Lewis Clerk at the War Office which you pay to James Gould taking his duplicate Receipts one of which you will be pleased to forward by Post and the other by a different conveyance to this Office. I am &c. Peter Hagner R. Clk L. Nehemiah Freeman Accountants Office P.M. West Point New York April 27^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 22^d Inst.— Your observations respecting the error of thirteen Cents are correct and the account will be made conformably ther The fines deducted from the March Pay Roll had taken place without a reference to your last Account Current, you will please to correct the error and pay the Soldier the proper amount. I am &c. Peter Hagner Pr. Clk. Elias Langham Esq. Accountants Office Shepards Town. April 27^th 1797 Virginia Sir In the absence of the Accountant I rec[eived] your letter of the 12^th Inst. enclosing an account & Vouchers Agreeably to your request I forward you a Copy of your last Account, which was suspended for want of knowing where you received the Five Hundred Dollars you Credit and the want of the signature of the party to the enclosed Receipt which you will obtain and forward it together with an explanation of the before= =mentioned Five Hundred Dollars. I am Sir &c. Peter Hagner Pr. Clk Cap^t Alex^r Thompson Accountants Office of the Artillerists & Engineers April 27^th 1797 West Point Sir [Duplicate sent him May 20^th as also another ditto on the same subject — see page 65 —] The Accountant wrote you the 24^th February last requesting you to forward the Receipt Roll of your Company up to 30^th September 1794 for which you stand charged