Ensign W^m R Boots 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 Octo 27 [17]97 Sir I recd your rect for Fifty six dollars &7/10 being amt. of your commissⁿ for recei^g & pay^g money from this Depart^t in the quarter ending the 30 [undecipherable] I am &c. W^m Simmons Ac^t