[133] The Hon^ble Sec^y of War Accountants Office Sir December 27 1797 Mr Samuel Lewis S^r Clerk in your Office has from time to time received considerable Sums of money, on your Warrants on account of the contingent Expenses of the Indian Department, War Department & Ordnance Department amounting to 4050 Dollars up to the 1^st January 1796 I have called on him personally as well as by letter to produce a Statement of his account that the proper sum may be entered to his credit, to which he has made no reply — As I am waiting for his Statement to compleat the remarks in the 4^th back of the Receivers of publick monies to be laid before Congress in a few Days I have to request you will be pleased to direct him to furnish me with the Statement required to enable me to make the necessary remarks — I am S^r W Simmons Ac^ct The Hon^ble Dwight Foster Department of War Accountants Office Decem^r 28 1797 Sir The Muster Rolls of the 1^st Reg^t Light Dragoons commanded by Col^o Anthony Walton White in the Years 1780 & 1781 are not on file in this Office, but I have always understood the Musters for that Period were lost in Action to the Southward consequently cannot ascertain the Services claimed by Robert Simons Cornet & Lieutenant neither can I find by inquiry at the War Office that any person of his name was ever commissioned an Officer in said Corps. I am &c W Simmons Acct^t