M^r Albermarle Collins Accountants Office late Cap^t of a Comp^y of N.B. Militia October 17^th 1797 Sir On examination of Presley Nevills accounts as 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 money received from James Mott, Treasurer of the State of New Jersey for the pay of a Company of Militia belonging to the first, New Jersey Reg^t commanded by you agreeably to the order of John Dougherty Paymaster to said Regiment employed on that expedition, & as no vouchers have hitherto been transmitted to this Office to exonerate you from said charge, I have to request your immediate attention in rendering such as you possess, or can obtain in a short time, properly stated, and in case of deficiency to refund the balance unaccounted for in your hands to the Treasurer of United States. I am under the necessity of being the more urgent in requesting your attention to this object in consequence of a resolution of Congress of the 3^d of March last, directing me to furnish an abstract by the first week in January next of the names of all the receivers of public monies unaccounted for. Col^o. Nevill the Paymaster General has been furnished with directions to attend to the final settlement of all the accounts relative to that expedition, and is to attend on the 15^th of November next for that purpose: before which time I flatter myself your account and vouchers will be all regularly furnished and examined in This Office and the amount paid by you passed to its proper [Page 386 YOQ01]