[277] Lieu^t H. R. Dayton Accountants O[ffice] Elizabeth Town N.J. September 12^th Sir Annexed is duplicate of a letter S[ent] you the 25 Ult. respecting the settlement of your ac[count] and to which you have not replied. I renew my r[equest] that the contents of that letter may immediately [be] attended to. Sam^ple W^m Simmons acc^t Capt. G. J. McRee Department of War of the art^y & Eng^rs Accountants Office West Point N.Y. September 12^th [17]9[—] Sir I have received your letter of the 3 Inst. enclosing your account & receipt for thirteen dollars [paid] by you for your passage to W. Carolina which I am u[nder] the necessity of returning to you as a charge inadm[issible.] I did not know that this claim was ever before pres[ented] to this Office, had it at that time been presented to [me] I should have rejected it and could have given m[y] reasons for so doing than the want of preced[ent.] — ges of this [strikethrough: natures] kind have not been unusual [among] Officers and have universally been disallowed. [I] cannot conceive it ever was the intention to [pay] an Officers expences when he may be ordered f[rom] post or from one command to another in the l[ine of] his duty. Sam^ple W^m Simmons Acc^t