William Heth Esquire Accountants Office Late P.M. to the Virginia Militia October 17^th 1797 Shellally near Richmond Virg^a. Sir. In an abstract of monies advanced by Prest Nevills 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 paid up for the pay of the Virginia Militia employed in said expedition; and as no vouchers have 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 a deficiency to refund the balance 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 Ma[rch] last wherein I am directed to furnish an abstract by the first week in January next of the names of all the receivers of public monies unaccounted for. In rendering your accounts you will be pleased to be particular in stating an account current; charging the monies received; 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 remaining 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. Nevill the P.M.G. has been furnished with directions to attend to the final settlement of all the accounts relative to that expedition, and is to attend for that purpose on the 15^th November next — before which time I flatter myself your accounts and vouchers will all be regularly furnished & 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. Wm Simmons Acct