The United States 1795 To William Roth D^r July 6^th For compensation as agent for paying the Militia of Virginia employed against the [Insurgents?] in for- gays in the year 1794 — Viz — For commission on amount of pay ments made to agents and adjusting their vouchers for add- itional actual pay — $22,275 — [off?] 88.53 883.53 Ditto on amount of [agents?] [sent?] to [undecipherable], but now to the [?] and use of the pay master and [?] of the [Dep-] uty master General $1305.77 — 3[?] — 65[?] — 8[?] Ditto to individuals for additional pay on account of [expenses?], [losses?] and [total?] Payments — $1823.15 — [?] — 117.19 Ditto on amount of receipts from individuals — $14,970 — 10 — 14.97 Ditto on [amount?] ascertained to be due [undecipherable], and received back from agents, as [undecipherable] now award — $115.21 — 2 — 22.81 [My] expenses [going to] [Philadelphia?] [Ditto] to assist [undecipherable] [Agents?] Ditto to return home [?] 14 Balance 6.1[undecipherable] [from?] [going] [coming] [?] 7 [?] [?] .8 To adjust this business, [I not only examined] carefully all [?] [pay?], [?] months [also?], but [made] [?] this [?] to [?] [undecipherable] this [?], this having [?] of [undecipherable] [?] [directing] [pay] [master?] agents for [commanding?] [companies] to make out pay rolls [payable] to those on what the [?] pay had been made, as the other [?] agents have done, I made them get [?] the [deficient?] rolls for each company, in which each individual's [?] are to the [rolls] [?], and with my own hands [?], thus instead of allowing to them the additional pay [because] they had used [?] the old pay, my rolls will not average little [amount] from [?] [?], and [?] [?] that [?] [undecipherable], now to [undecipherable] was retained for a [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [them] than was actually [?] [?]; I am within [bounds] when I say this I have saved [fully] $2000 [?]. [This] coming more [?] [?] to [prove] this, than to compare my [own] [?] [?] with those [?] [?] by the other State agents. — In addition to this [extraordinary] labor, my [correspondence] with [the] agents when [employed] (and which is now easy to be [?]) to [explain?] [such?] [?] [?] [?] cases, to guard against [impositions], and to defeat [?] who has purchased the [claims?], [ward?] [?] at least [four?] [pages?] of paper The payment letters from, was attended with very considerable [?] in this [?] the [deficit?] for about 1000 [?] [?] had been granted to the [pay masters?] [Regiments?] by the [deputy?] of the late Paymaster General, they were not [gone?] to the [town?] to whom they [?] [?] [?] [divided?]; [paid?] by [agreement?] say to the proportionate due to the [companies?] of the [respective?] [?] [Regiments?], taking [bonds?], as is that case of [additional?] pay, for the faithful [?] [?] those[?] This sum was paid to individuals in [various?] ways, that [undecipherable] had been [?] been a [bounty?] independent of the other items in this account. The [injustice?] of [?] would be too [inconsiderable?] to mention. I write that my concern that about 1000 [?] of this sum was [?] paid to [?] individuals, after being [?] as [?] by the agents who [first?] employed. — In this duty I [applied?] me to be called upon at all times, and in all places. The county, [?] my [?] [?] [private?] [?] been [?], and at late hours [?] [?] [people?] three [grand?] [paths?] by [printers?], and [seven?] was [long?] without carrying with me those [papers?], which could enable me to adjust any [undecipherable] claim, or to [?] with any [?] agent. In this charge, I am only for [spare?] [?], the [?] I not [allow?] any [?] [?] be [?] [?] to [?] [?] [?] [?] to [copy?] the [correspondence?], which the recovery of that [?] [?] [?] The two first charges [thereat?] require no [explanation?] [explanation?] — and I only [?] leave to remark [?], [?] [?] he has charged for [calling?] upon [Junior?] [?] to account for the money in his [?] [?], are from [?] [Smith?] [?] [undecipherable] [?] perfectly [?] [?]; that [?] [Receiving?], and from some of [whom?] [?] [?] as noted. When therefore, these remarks are duly consi- dered, and it is recollected the [responsibility?] [?] [I have?] [?] and [?] [?] in carrying [so] large a sum as $1000 [?] from hence, [from?] Georgetown, [Alexandria?], [Richmond?]; and that, I had not the aid of a [coach?] to [assist?] my payments, (I often [?] myself) that [was?] not to [?] [?] as [setting?] my [travels?] at too high a rate, to, I can aver with great [truth?], that those who are acquainted with Virginia, (and [they?] are [men?] in whose [government?] [placed?] great [confidence?]) with the manner in which I have discharged this duty, was to [say?] that me more than [justly?] [compensated?] were I to [receive?] 1000 Dollars for my Services [signature: W. Roth?] [Philadelphia?] Feb [?] 179[?] [Cover/wrapper notation:] A Account Wm Roth for Compensation