[121] Lieu^t David Hale New York^a Accountants Office December 20. 1797 Sir You will receive from Nicholas Fish Supervisor at New York the sum of two hundred Dollars, on account of the recruiting Services, for which you will please to give him your duplicate receipts holding yourself accountable for the due application of the same. I am &c W Simmons Acct. Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor of New York Accountants Office December 20. 1797 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of two hundred dollars, which be pleased to pay to Lieu^t David Hale on account of the recruiting Services, and take the necessary receipts therefor. I am &c W Simmons Acct. Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Supervisor Boston Accountants Office December 25. 1797. Sir I received your letter of the 12 Instant enclosing your account Current for receiving, and paying Monies to the 23. March 1797 when I forwarded to you a form for stating your subsequent accounts for that object. It was not to increase your duties, but was merely to keep that kind of business in its accustomed haunt. nothing surely can be more simple, or create less writing than that model. State the time you receive the money & the amount and charge the time you pay it, to whom, & the amount, is all that I