you will receive the amount of your account bei[ng?] [one] hundred Dollars on giving him duplicate receipts [for the] same. · Sam^e Hy Simmo[ns?] Acc[ountant?] Joshua Wentworth Esq^r Accountants Off[ice] Supervisor August 5^th 179[1] Portsmouth N.H. Sir I duly received your letter of th[e] enclosing the receipt of M^r Edmund H. Quincy for [one] hundred dollars which sum will be passed to [your] Credit on the Books of this Office. · Sam^e William [undecipherable] Acc[ountant] Lieu^t John Steele Accountants Off[ice] Carlisle August 5^th 179[1] Pennsylvania Sir I received your letter of [the] 31 Ulti^t inclosing your Recruiting account & Vou[chers] which have been examined. · When Military characters are in pu[rsuit] of deserters it is considered as acting in the line [of] duty and only reasonable expences are allowed on [these] occasions, for this reason the premium charges by Serg^t [undecipherable] has not been allowed nor the six Dollars charg[ed]