the Vouchers for your payments on that head, returned to him on his paying the amount. In answer I have to observe that those vouchers cannot be returned to him, as they may hereafter be called for from another quarter. They will therefore be retained subject to such call Sam^l S^o 9^s Simmons Acct^t M^r John Bryant Accountants Office Dep^t Mil^y Storekeeper Springfield. January 22^nd 1798 Sir I received your letter of the 10^th Inst^t inclosing your Salary account from 1^st October to 31^st December 1797 inclusive amounting to One hundred & twenty Dollars which sum you will receive as usual from Jonathan Jackson Supervisor at Boston, on giving him the necessary receipt for the same — I also received by the Same conveyance two Bills one of Isaac Nicou for $ion & the other of Charles Sheldon for whith had amounting together to twenty five dollars sixty two cents — which I herewith return you that you may make Oath that they were for the use of the United States, and were used accordingly & that they were not included in any account previously rendered by you after which please to forwards them to this Office and the amount will be remitted you in the usual way I am &^c W Simmons Acct^t