Alex^r. J. Dallas Esq^r. Accountants Office Philadelphia October 17 1797 Sir I wrote you on the 16^th Instant on the subject of accounting for the monies paid to you for the pay of the Pennsylvania quota of Militia called out to suppress an insurrection in the western counties of said State in 1794 to which letter permit me to repeat my request of your speedy attention.— I take the liberty to enclose a letter for M^r Alexander Buchanan, a Captain in the aforementioned Militia who stands also charged with money paid him for arears of pay due his company, which is yet unaccounted for on his part, in case his place of residence is known to you, I have to request you will be pleased after perusing and seating it to have it added to the superscription on the letter, and forward it as speedily as posible, in case it is posible to make a settlement with him by the transmission of vouchers or otherwise, I have no doubt of your ready co-operation to expedite the time of obtaining it (for which purpose the letter for him is left open for your perusal) for which I shall consider myself much obliged to you. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^t