George Gale Esquire Accountants Office late [undecipherable] to the Maryland Militia October 17^th 1797 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, your stand charged with different sums of money paid you for the Maryland Militia, employed in said expedition and as no vouchers have been hitherto transmitted to the Office to exonerate you from those charges, I have to request your immediate attention in rendering such as you actually possess or can shortly obtain, properly stat[ed] and in case of deficiency to refund the balance unaccount[ed] for in your hands to the Treasurer of the United States. I am under the necessity to be the more urgent in requesting your immediate attention to the object in consequence of a resolution of Congress of the 3 of March last whereby I am directed to furnish an abstract by the first week in January next of the names of all the receivers of public monies unaccounted for. In rendering your accounts you will plea[se] to be very 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. — A list of the sums remaining unpaid, accounting for any balance remaining unpaid, accounting for any balance remaining unappropriated is also to be furnished. Your particular attention is requested to these several objects, as Col. Nevill the Paymaster General has been furnished with directions to attend to the final settlement of all accounts relative to that expedition & is to attend on the 15^th November next for that purpose: before which time I flatter myself your accounts and vouchers will be all regularly furnish & examined in this Office and the amount paid by you passed to its proper account on the aforementioned abstract to be furnished to Congress. Sam &c. Wm Simmons Acct