Department of War Accountants Office August 28, 1797. Sir I received your letter of the 26 Inst^t covering Duplicate Receipts for Bounty paid to Recruits Inlisted by you which will be filed with those already received to be examined on the settlement of your Recruiting Account — In future you will be pleased to subjoin to your letters a list of the papers transmitted by you — I am Sir Your Humb^le Ser^v [signature: [undecipherable] Simmons] Ensign W^m R Boote New Brunswick [cover/address leaf:] [W^m Simmons Esq^r August 28^th 1797] [Accountants Office Free [undecipherable: Simmons]] [FREE] Ensign William R. Boote New Brunswick New Jersey [postal seal]