Isaac Craig Es^qr Pittsburg Sir Accountants Office November 9^th 1797 Conformably to your estimate for the pay &c. of the Troops on the upper posts of the Ohio for the month of August & September 1797 Lieut^t dovell has received the sum of Three Thousand, seven hundred ninety dollars &¹⁰⁰ the amount after adding three months pay & forage to the estimate so as to compleat the pay &c. of the Troops in your Quarter to the end of the year — He is accountable for the delivery thereof to you, and on receipt you will grant your duplicate receipts to him to be forwarded for his exoneration [strikethrough: k]this Office. Sam^l &c. W^m Simmons Acc^tt Caleb Swan Es^qr D^tEtroit — Sir Accountants Office November 10^th 1797 The foregoing is duplicate of my letter to you by last post. The present serves to cover an extract from the Warrant book from the 2^d October to this day for your government. On looking over the abstract of your last payments I find you have again commenced advancing monies on estimate without pay or muster rolls — I need only remind you of the frequent communications made to you on this head, and refer you to the instructions of the Comptroller — I must suspend passing those advances for pay with-