M^r Roger Royce Accountants Office Late Cap^t & P.M. to a Troop of October 19^th 1797 Maryland Militia Dragoons 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 Penn sylvania in the year 1794, Hand charged with money received from him pursuant to a warrant drawn in your favor for the pay of yourself & troop of Maryland Militia Dragoons employed in said expedition and as no vouchers have hitherto been transmitted to this Office to exonerate you from said advance 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 the United States. I am under the necessity to be the more urgent in requesting your attention to this object in consequence of a resolution of Congress of the 3 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 PMG. has been furnished with instructions to attend to the final settlement of all the accounts for that expedition, and is to attend on the 15^th November next for that purpose: before which time I flatter myself your account & vouchers will be regularly furnished & examined in this Office and the amount paid by you passed to its proper account on the afor= [Page 418 YO001]