[168] Seventy three Dollars and ^70/100 of which you are requested to take Notice. The balance now standing to your Debit being Seven hundred Sixty five Dollars ^70/100 C^ts Sam H^o W B[undecipherable] The Secretary of War Accountants Off Sir January 16^th In compliance with the request in your letter of this date — the number of Clerks employ my Office are as follows, with the rate per annum allow in the quarter ending 31^st December 1797, exclusive of the proportion of the 800 Dollars allowed by congress per act of 10 July last for extra Clerk hire Viz^t: 1 Principal Clerk . . . . £1200 Doll^s 1 Book keeper . . . . . . 900 " 1 Examining Clerk . . . . 800 " 3 . . . D^o @ 700 each . 2100 " 1 Copying D^o . . . . . . 500 " D^r: 5500 I would here beg leave to observe that I have been able to vary the Compensation of the Clerks during the year as I conceived their services merited, and that I shall be under the necessity in the present Year to employ one other with a liberal mere a Salary of not less than 2[undecipherable] 00 Dollars per Annum the business of this Office having considerably increased — Sam H^o W Simm[ons] A[ccountant]