be better able to judge of the propriety of causing the Paymaster to come on to this City to attend the Settlement. I have communicated that part of your letter relative to the recruiting Service to the Secretary of War, he informs me that he has authorized M^r Swan to draw for money for that purpose & that he will also send him some the first opportunity, in the mean time it may be applied out of any unappropriated monies in the hands of the Paymaster General. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acc^t Nicholas Fish Esq^r Department of War Supervisor Accountants Office New York. July 21^th 1797 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One Thousand four hundred ninety dollars and sixty two Cents being for the Pay, Subsistence and Forage of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers stationed at West Point to the 30.^th June 1797 which sum you will please to pay to Nehemiah Freeman Temporary Paymaster, taking his duplicate receipts to be accountable for the due application thereof. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acc^t