Alex. J. Dallas Esqu^ire Accountants Office late P.M. to the Pennsylvania Militia October 16^th 1797 Sir In an abstract of monies advanced by Presley-Nevill PaymasterGeneral to the Militia called out to supp[ress] an insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylvania in the year 1794 you stand charged with different sums of money paid to you being [undecipherable] of the Pennsylvania Militia employed in said expedition, and as no vouchers have been hitherto transmitted to this Office to exonerate you from those charges, I have to request your immediate attention in rendering such as you actually posses, or can shortly obtain, properly stated— and in case of deficiency to refund the balance remaining unaccounted for in your hands to the Treasurer of the United States. I am under the necessity to be the more urgent in requesting your immediate attention to this object in consequence of a resolution of Congress of the 3^d March last directing me to furnish an abstract by the first week in January next of the names of all the re=ceivers of public monies unaccounted for. In rendering your accounts you will ple[ase] to be very particular in stating an account current, charging the monies received, and crediting the expenditures, agre[e]=ably to the Pay Rolls and accounts you were furnished with, also filing the receipts with the accounts, with cor=responding numbers which are to accompany the ac=count current— A list of the sums remaining unpaid, accounting for any balance in your hands unappropri=ated is also to be furnished. Your particular attention is requested to these sev[eral] objects, as Col Nevill the P.M.G. has been furnished with directions to attend to the final settlement of all accou[nts] relative to that expedition and is to attend for that pu[r]=pose on the 15^th November next, before which time I am i[n] hopes your accounts &vouchers will be all regularly furnished and examined at this Office and the amou[nt] paid by you passed to its proper account in the aforemen=tioned abstract to be furnished to Congress. I am &c. Wm Simmons Acct[.]