M^r John H. Schenck Accountants Office late Capt. of a Comp^y of N.S. Militia October 17^th 1797 Sir On examination of Chesley Nevill's accounts [undecipherable] 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 third New Jer[undecipherable] Regiment commanded by you agreeably to the order of Thomas Lawrence Paymaster to said Regiment employ[undecipherable] that expedition; and as no vouchers have hitherto be[undecipherable] transmitted to this Office to exonerate you from sa[undecipherable] charge, I have to request your immediate attention i[undecipherable] rendering such as you possess, or can obtain in a sho[undecipherable] time, properly stated, and in case of deficiency to re[undecipherable] the balance unaccounted for in your hands to the Tre- -suer of the 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 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. 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 November next for that purpose: before which time I flatter myself your accounts & vouchers will be all regularly furnished and examined in this Office and the amount paid by you passed to its pro-per account on the aforementioned abstract to be furnished to Congress. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^t