Lieut. David Hale             Accountants Office Corps of Artillerists & Eng^rs       June 24^th 1797 West Point [check mark] Sir I received your letter of the 19^th Insta[undecipherable: nt] with the different enclosures therein mentioned, you receive Credit for the amount of the different V[undecipherable] for bounties & Contingencies being (including premium[s]) [undecipherable] three dollars and fifty cents. As you stand charged with One Doll[undecipherable: ar] thirty six cents on the Books of this Office more tha[undecipherable: n] the balance stated in the account said by you to ha[undecipherable: ve been] transmitted 28^th March last which account is not [undecipherable] found on file. I have therefore to request you will tra[undecipherable: nsmit] a copy of it as early as posible in order to have the ca[undecipherable: use of] the difference ascertained and settled accordingly. I am &c W^m Simmons acc^t