M^r William Taylor Accountants Office late P.M. to Major Lewis' Virg^a Mil. Cav^y October 17^th 1797- Fredericksburg.) Sir In an abstract of monies advanced by Presley Nevill Paymaster General to the Militia called out to suppress an insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylvania in the year 1794 you stand charged with sums of money received from him for the Pay of Major Lewis's Virginia Militia Cavalry employed in said expedition, and as no vouchers have hitherto been transmitted to this office to exonerate you from those charges, I have to request your immediate attention in rendering such as you actually possess 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 U. 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 March last directing me to furnish by the 1^st week in January next an abstract of the names of the receivers of public monies remaining unaccounted for. In rendering your accounts you will please to be very particular in stating an account current, charging the monies and crediting the expenditures agreeably to the Pay Rolls and accounts you were furnished with, also filing the receipts with the accounts, with corresponding numbers, which are to accompany the account current.- A list of the sums unpaid accounting for any balance remaining in your hands unappropriated is also to be furnished.- Your particular attention is requested to these several objects as Col^o Nevill the P.M.G. has been furnished with directions to attend to the final settlement of all accounts relative to that expedition and is to attend for that purpose accordingly on the 15^th November next before which time I flatter myself your accounts & vouchers will be regularly furnished and examined in this Office and the amount paid by you passed to its proper account on the aforementioned abstract to be furnished to Congress. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^r