from the pay for this Object — At the time the bounty & premium Hildebrand was disallowed, the measure was as justifiable as in admitting it. Sam^l 8^c W^m Simms Acct. Nath^l Macon Esquire Accountants Office Chairman Committee of Revisal & January 18^th 179 Unfinished business — Sir, I have had the honour of receiving your letter of this Morning requesting for the information of the Committee of Revisal and unfinished business, a list of the number Clerks in my Office and the salary & duties of each, for which he beg to refer you to a copy of my letter (enclosed) to the Secretary War of the 16 Inst^t. which was furnished him agreeably to request to be laid before the Committee of Ways & Means — this not be sufficiently explicit shall be happy to make further communications to the Committee. Sam^l 8^c W^m Simms Acct. M^r George Fleming Accountants Office Merch^t New York January 19^th 1798. Sir, I have received your letter of the [undecipherable] with its enclosures — they will be referred to the Secretary of War who no doubt decide, and transmit information thereof, to you — Sam^l 8^c W^m Simms Acct.