Accountants Office October 31^st 1797. Sir I received your letter of the 29^th Inst enclosing receipts for Bounty paid which will be placed with those already recieved. The receipt Roll will be entered to your credit. You have done perfectly right in withholding the pay of the Deserters, as it is considered here, that their pay is forfeited when they desert, and commences when taken, deducting all expenses which have accrued in the apprehending him. I am Sir Your mo ob^t Ser^t [signature: Atkⁿ Simmons] Esq^r W^m R Boote New Brunswick [on verso: W^m Simmons Esq^r / Octo^r 31^st 1797. / — Accountants Office / [undecipherable] / By [undecipherable] — / Esq^r W^m R Boote / New Brunswick / New Jersey,]