use every means in your power to procure a compliance with the request contained in it, for this reason I have to beg that no time may be lost in sealing and delivering it. I am &c W.^m Simmons Act.^to M^r James Smiley D.W. Accountants Office Nelson C. Hen[undecipherable] October 23. 1797 Sir The several sums of money received by you on account of Lieu^t Col. John Baldwell, Joseph Lewis & Patrick Brown, being yet unaccounted for, altho they have been written to requesting them to forward such vouchers as would enable me to close their accounts — I have to request that you will use your influence with those Gentlemen to prevail on them to send to this Office the necessary vouchers to separate them from the charges on the books thereof. Should this not be done prior to the first week in January next their names will appear on the abstract of delinquents to be laid before Congress at that time. I am &c W.^m Simmons Acct.^to Daniel Stevens Esq^r D.W. Accountants Office Super^t S^t Carolina October 24^th 1797 & Sir I received your letter of the 9^th Inst enclosing [undecipherable] monies from this department in the quarter ending 30 ulti^mo amounting to nine dollars[undecipherable] which will be remitted you as usual by the Treasurer of the United States for which you will be pleased to transmit your receipt to this Office. I am &c W.^m Simmons [undecipherable]