Lieut. Nehemiah Freeman Accountants Office Temporary Paymaster July 19^th 1797 West Point Sir I received your letter of the 15^th Inst enclosing the account of Corporal Moses & John Davi for expences in pursuit of Deserters, which I return you, for payment out of any unappropriated moni in your hands, after they have sworn to the justness o the charges, and that they were necessarily incurred in the pursuit. In answer to your question "if at the desire of the Commandant you advance money to any p son to pursue deserters, and the person either dies does not return, so that a particular account cannot b rendered whether such advance will passed to your Credit. I have to observe that in making any advance for pursuing deserters you will be governed by my letters that Subject. If an advance is made conformably t and, and the circumstances should occur you have po out, they no doubt will have their weight on examinatio of the account here. To determine now what will be all hereafter would be improper, you will accordingly be ed in your advances. I enclose you an account of Printi advertisements of deserters received from Col^o. Roch tain which you will pay out of any the unappro ated monies in your hands and take the proper rec Sam b6 [undecipherable: Wm. Simmons]