Settlement of Accounts, with details
Document 1797Simmons requests monies owed to Treasury by Davis. Letter was motivated by the Resolve of the House of Representatives. The balance of the funds owed should be refunded to the Treasury of the United States or vouchers must be produced. Footer notes Davis owes $500.00 for the mounting of artillery at Boston.
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producing the necessary Vouchers or refunding the
to the Treasurer of the United States
Your early attention to this object
ticularly requested.
Saml.
Dr Return Jonathan Meigs
To the United Stat
1795
April 22 For amount received by you on account of you
Pay & Subsistence. Dr
D.W.A.O. Augt 26, 1797
Wm Simmons
Acct
Amasa Davis Esqr Department of War
Boston Accountants Offic
(directed to the care of Jon Sackwood Esqr) August 26th 1797
Sir
You stand charged on the Books of this O
with monies received by you and which remain yet
accounted for.
Pursuant to a Resolve of the House of Re
tives of 3 March 1797 I am required to lay before the
within the first Week in January next — an abstract
names &c. of all receivers of public monies from 1 Ja
1791 to 1st January 1797.
In order to prevent your name from appe
as a delinquent I have to request you will without d
count for the monies received either by producing
necessary Vouchers or refunding the balance to the Treas
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Simmons requests monies owed to Treasury by Davis. Letter was motivated by the Resolve of the House of Representatives. The balance of the funds owed should be refunded to the Treasury of the United States or vouchers must be produced. Footer notes Davis owes $500.00 for the mounting of artillery at Boston.
Date
08/26/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1797082621755
Page start
245
Note
heading notes letter is to be directed to the care of Jon Jackson, Esq.
Notable persons
Doctor Amasa Davis
William Simmons
Jonathan Jackson
supervisor Boston
House of Representatives
congress
Notable locations
Boston
Accountant's Office
Massachusetts
Notable items
abstract of names
resolve of house or representatives
voucher
balance
mounting artillery

