Capt. Rob Bird Accountants Office US 11 Regiment July 10^th 1797 Pittsburg Sir I have received your letter of the 10^th May last enclosing the receipt roll for payments made to your Company for November and December 1796 — amounting to Five hundred ninety one dollars and nineteen Cents which together with the receipt of Isaac Craig Esq^r for Fourteen dollars and twenty eight Cents for the pay of Israel Whaton a deceased Soldier of your Company from the 1^st November 1796 to — 16^th February 1797 inclusive retained him; will be passed to your Credit on the Books of this Office. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Accountants Office Superintendant of July 11^th 1797 Military Stores Sir You will receive herewith a Warrant for the sum of Two thousand, seven hundred sixty eight Dollars and eighty six Cents being the amount of sundry payments and charges made by you from 1 July 1796 to 30^th June 1797 after deducting Two hundred, thirty seven Dollars and twenty five Cents improperly made against this Department for which the Vouchers will be returned to you. As objections frequently occur in the settlement of your account of payments made by you, as your appointment or instructions does not authorize your making any disbursements, I would recommend that in future all accounts for debts contracted by you proper to be settled in this Office should be immediately transmitted here with your certificate annexed thereto for the approbation of the Secretary of War. this will prevent all future confusion and will enable me to credit on the Books of my Office the proper heads of expenditure therewith. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct