Six months pay & Subsistence due to Doctor. Allison the two hundred dollars overpaid you— The $80^22/00 advanced by you to him on account of supplies furnished the Hospital Department should of right be refunded to you, / the same having been paid out of monies appropriated for different purpo-ses) and his accounts against that Department should be settled at the Treasury— I herewith send you a continuation of payments made at this Office up to the present time. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct Richard Allison Department of War late Surgeon in the Service US Accountants Office at Fort Washington July 25^th 1797 Sir Herewith you will receive your— Account Current in which there appears a balance due the United States of One Thousand, thirty one Dollars and twenty Cents— this account was some time since transmitted Caleb Swan Esq^r Pay master General for his examination and returned with the observations as marked with red Ink. I shall be under the neccity of witholding the 6 months pay and Subsistence allowed you by Act of Congress as a deranged Officer till you forward such Vouchers as are admissible