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the accounts relative to that expedition, and is to attend at the 15 of November next for that purpose. before which time I flatter myself your accounts and vouchers will be all regularly furnished and examined at this Office, and the amount paid by you passed to its proper account on the aforesaid abstract to be furnished to Congress — I am &c.
Wm Simmons Acctt
Mr Robert G. Johnson
late Pay Master to the N.J. Militia Regt
Sir
Accountants Office
October 17th 1797
On examination of Presley Nevitt's 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 2d New Jersey Regiment commanded by Capt Joseph Hall employed on that expedition, and 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 from 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 8 of March last, directing me to furnish an abstract by the first week in January next of the names all the receivers of public monies unaccounted for.