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 you received from Col^o Nevill and Major Rutter, for the pay of Major [undecipherable] Spear's Battalion of Maryland Militia, Cap^t David Hodden's Comp^y of Artillery and Cap^t W^m McMahon's Company of Riflemen, called into service to suppress an Insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania in 1794. Sam^l S[undecipherable] W. Simmons Acc^t 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 S[undecipherable] W. Simmons Acc^t Lieu^t Nehemiah Freeman Accountants Office H.M. West Point January 16^th 1798 Sir In conformity with my letter &^c of the 26. 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 Dollars &^c the sum remitted, &/for which your receipt is on file which causes the statement made here to differ with yours in the sum of one hundred