In case you have in your possession the receipts of the persons to whom the above Sums are due, you will be pleased to transmit them to this Office; otherwise the amount thereof must be refunded the United States, which together with the sum of fifty five Dollars the already remitted will balance the advances your received from Col Nevill and Major Butler, for the pay of Major Ins^r Spears Battalion of Maryland Militia, Cap^t David Hodders Comp^y of Artillery and Cap^t W^m Mc Mahons Company of Riflemen, called into service to suppress an Insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania in 1794. Sam^l &^c W Simmons Acct M^r David Ames Accountants Office Springfield Massachusetts January 16^th 1798 Sir I have received your letter of the 8^th Inst.^t enclosing your account Current & Vouchers. They will be placed under examination, and you will be informed of the result Sam^l &^c W Simmons Acct.^t Lieut^t Nehemiah Freeman Accountants Office H M West Point January 16^th 1798 Sir In conformity with my letter 3^d of the 26^th Ultimo, the account Current & Vouchers then acknowledged to be received, have undergone an examination & have been found correct, except the charge of five hundred Dollars which you credit on account of Pay & Forage for October 1797, instead of six hundred seventy three Dollar &^c the sum remitted, & on which your receipt is on file which causes the Statement made here to differ with yours in the sum of one hundred