nine Cents which you will please to pay to Captain Mich[ael] Halteisen, taking the necessary receipts holding him [ac]= countable for the due application of the same, being the Pay of himself and the Detachment under his [com]= mand including the Forage of Frederick Dalcho Surgeon's M[ate] stationed at Fort Johnston for the months of July & Aug[ust] I am &c. Wm Simmons, Acct^t --- Capt^t Michael Halteisen Department of War Fort Johnston Accountants Office near Charleston. S.C. September 25. 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 6^th Instant en[closing] the Muster & Pay Rolls of the Detachment under your com[mand] for July and August 1797 from which I have deducted [the] Pay of Sergeant David Stanton he having been paid at [this] Office from the 1^st May to the 20^th August last the day of h[is] discharge. I have added to the same eight Dollars be[ing so] much short calculated in the pay of Lieutenant Rob[—] an increase of pay being allowed Lieutenants, which [took] place on the first July last, makes amount for Pay & fo[rage] Six hundred, eighty one Dollars, twenty nine Cents due fo[r the] above period which you will receive from Daniel Steve[ns] Supervisor Charleston, on giving him the necessary recei[pts] holding yourself accountable for the due applicati[on] thereof. I am &c. Wm Simmons Acct^t --- Joshua Darbe Department of War late Capt^t. Militia Accountants Office at Danville September 26^th. 1797 Sir [a duplicate transmitted December / 1797] I received your letter of the 25 Ulto. and in reply thereto, I have had your Account Current stated a Copy of which is enclosed for your examination, by it will appear a balance due by you to the United States of Two Thousand six hundred seventy eight dollars & thirty Cents, which amount cannot be passed to your credit till you trans= mit the receipts of the 32 privates paid by Ensign James Flinn, who received of you Eight Hundred Dollars being amount of pay due to them, as well as the receipts of the individuals for the One Thousand eight Hundred seventy eight dollars ³⁰/₁₀₀ received by you for the Pay &c. of your Company discharged 7^th august 1792. — I hope you will loose no time in procuring and sending forward the receipts for the above, till which time you will be held accountable at this Offi[ce] I am &c. Wm Simmons Acct^t --- Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Department of War Superinten^t of Military Stores Accountants Office Philadelphia September 26^th. 1797 Sir M^r Kirkpatrick late Commissary at Pittsburg stands charged on the Books of this Office with the sum of Two Thousand Dollars, In a letter received from him under[...]