[191] Ensⁿ Wm R. Boote Accountants Office New Brunswick February 25 1798 Sir I received your letter of the 23^d Inst: enclosing Sundry receipts for Bounties paid by you, which are filed with those already received from you subject to a future examination on a settlement of your Recruiting Account — [undecipherable] 28^c W Simmons Acct^o The Secretary of War Accountants Office Sir February 13 1798 I herewith enclose you an extract of a letter received from David Henley, A.W.D. in Tennessee with an account of Elijah Robertson & a certificate of James Robertson late Indian Agent, stating the services & supplies rendered by him in conducting Sundry Indians to the Headquarters of the Army in the year 1794 — The information required by M^r Henley as respects payment being already made, I can answer that none has been made at this Office. The remaining part I beg leave to submit for your decision — I am &^c W Simmons Acct^o Lieut^t Horatio H Dayton Accountants Office Elizabethtown New Jersey February 5 1795 Sir I received your letter of the 13 Inst: enclosing your Subsistence Account up to the 31 Ult: mo & a request to have the amount of your pay remitted to you for the same period, as Congress have not yet made any appropriations for the present year, it will be necessary that you transmit Statements for those objects up to the 31^st December 97, inclusively that for your subsistence must be attested by you before a Magistrate, to be due to you upon on enquiry at the Treasury Department. I find that no contract for subsistence existed at Elizabeth Town for the time charges by you. I am therefore at a loss to account for your charge of seven hundred Cents [undecipherable]