answer to which he informs me that he has acc to you for the same. I have therefore to request t you will without delay transmit the necessa vouchers to this Office to exonerate you from this c and in case any balance remains unappropriate your hands to refund the same to the Treasurer United States. I am the more urgent in requesting speedy attention to this object in consiquence of a re -tion of Congress of the 3. March last, whereby I am -rected to furnish an abstract by the first week in J ary next of the names of all receivers of public m unaccounted for. Col^o Nevill the P.M.G. for the expe -tion in question has been furnished with directo to attend to the final settlement of all the acco relative to it, and is to attend for that purpos -cordingly on the 15^th of this month before whi time I hope your account and vouchers wil undergo the necessary examination in this I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct Edward Carrington Es^q D.W. Accountants Supervisar Richmond V^a November 1.^st 179[7] Sir Treasurer of the United States will r you the sum of Two hundred seventy five Dollars which you will be pleased to pay to Richard Scott Blackburn, Captain, at Fort Norfolk on his givin