M^r Joseph Swaringen Accountants Office late P.H. to Col^o Carlisles Reg^t October 17, 1797 of Maryland Militia 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 Pennsylvania in the year 1794, you stand charged with money received from him pursuant to warrants drawn in your favor for the pay of Col Carlisles Regiment of Maryland militia employed on said expedition; and as no vouchers have hitherto been transmitted to this Office to exonerate you from those charges. 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 deficiency, to refund the balance unaccounted for in your hands to the Treasurer 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 March last, directing me to furnish an abstract by the first week January next of the names of all the receivers of public monies unaccounted for. In rendering your accounts you will be particular in stating an account current charging the monies received and crediting the expenditures made 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. Your particular attentions 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 accounts for expedition and is to attend on the 15 November for that purpose. After which time I flatter myself your accounts and vouchers will be regularly furnished and 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. W^m Simmons Acc^t