[Docket: William Simmons Esq. August 18^th 1797] [Accountants Office] [Free [undecipherable]] [postal mark] [Enscon Williams H. [undecipherable]] [circular postal stamp] New Brunswick New Jersey Accountants Office August 18^th 1797 Sir, I received your letter of the 14^th Instant enclosing duplicate Receipts for Six Dollars Bounty paid Samuel Willis which will be filed here until it will be proper to Settle your Recruiting account. The form of a Recruiting account delivered to you was intended only to guide you when a Settlement takes place at this Office when that is proper you will be informed. As to the extra expenses you mention I cannot answer you until I am informed of the nature of them. It will however not be improper to inform you that in all cases of disbursments of publick Money it is most proper to take duplicate receipts in case one should be lost. I am Sir Yur obt Serv [signature] Ensⁿ Wm R Boote New Brunswick New Jersey