[Copy] West Point, January, 5th 1795. Sir, You informed me yesterday morning, that the extract from the instructions from the Comptroller to the Paymaster General, handed to you on the 3d instant, would, you Suppose, being registered in the orderly book of the corps, be seen by Captain Ingersoll, the officer the Second in command. In the afternoon I waited on that gentleman with the muster and pay roll for November last, and enquired if he would add his name to the certificate of the muster. He replied That "he should have no objection to Sign muster "rolls for the men whom he should muster; "that he would even sign the muster roll in question, if required, by your order; but that "he did not think it proper for him to give "a certificate, that he had mustered men, "whom he he had not mustered." The muster and pay roll for