Ensign W^m R Boot                      D.W. Accountants Office New Brunswick                                       October 24^th 1797 Sir Your letter of the 24^th Inst: came to hand covering receipts for bounty paid sundry recruits enlisted by you, which are filed to be examined on settlement of your recruiting account. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct --- The Secretary of War                      Accountants Office near Downingstown                               October 25^th 1797 Sir The law of Congress of the 3 March 1797 provides an inspector, and authorizes the Brigadier to choose him from the Captains & Subalterns in the line — I find Major Cushing has been appointed to this Office and claims the allowance stipulated in the aforementioned act — I have therefore to request you will inform me, what allowance, or emoluments, he is to receive as inspector that I may communicate the same to the Paymaster General immediately as his payments will be suspended untill he hears from me on the subject. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^t --- Nicho^s Fish Esq^r                      D.W. Accountants Office Oct^r 27 [1797] Sir I recd your rec^t for fifty six dollars &^cts being am^t of your commissⁿ for recei^t & pay^t money from this Depart^m in the quarter ending the 30 [undecipherable] I am &c. W^m Simmons Ac[ct]