John Kelly Esq^r Accountants Office Supervisor June 16^th 1797 Maryland ✓ Sir I received your letter of the 11^th Inst inclosing Capt. Staats Morris's receipt for Two hun- -dred and twenty seven dollars which sum will be passed to your Credit on the Books of this Office I am rc [*N.B. it should have been W^m Simmons 247 dollars see letter to M^r Acc^t Kelly June 22^d] S^t Peter Shoemaker Accountants Office Reading June 16^th 1797 ✓ Sir I received your letter of the 1^st 10^th Inst — enclosing receipts for bounty paid, your Recruits which sum will remain on file ready to be inclu- -ded in your recruiting account when it shall be proper to forward it. I am rc W^m Simmons Acc^t Caleb Swan Esq Accountants Office Paymaster General June 16^th 1797 P.M.S. ✓ Sir Inclosed you have remarks made on the exami- nation of the different Vouchers lately transmitted by you to this Office for your government in settling the different delinquents By these remarks you will perceive the following Officers have to account for Balances opposed to their names, which they are to do you, as you will see by the inclosed letters to which after perusing you will be pleased to seal & cause to be delivered. Thomas Pasteur Capt 1 Reg^t acco^t inclosed him — [undecipherable] Edward Butler " Levies d^o — d^o 344.33 D^o — D^o " 4^th Reg^t d^o — d^o [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Hamilton Armstrong . 1 d^o . . . . . . [undecipherable] Andrew Shanklin L^t 3^d d^o Bernard Gaines Capt 1 d^o Ephraim Kibby . Spies — — — — Yelverton Peyton Ens^o 1 Reg^t Total amount Dollars [undecipherable] I should hope they will readily comply with [my] request as the impropriety of having Public monies [for a] length of time in the hands of Officers must be evident [to] them[strikethrough: selves] as well as to yourselves: at any event after them to account for their respective balances, I [shall be] glad to be informed as soon possible what satisfaction [I] have been able to obtain from each of them. L^t John Bowyers recruiting account has undergone examination and the balance as stated by you to him, ten dollars, is found to be just. I have to request your attention to have the defect in the receipts mentioned in the remarks, remedied and to guard against similar ones in future. with respect & W^m Simm[ons]