evidently retard the investigation of those claims — ["Your account as P.M.G. to the Pennsylvania Militia is suspended & can not be settled until you comply with the necessary requisition contained in my letter of the 30^th December 1st N^o 2."] Sam^l &^c W Simmons Acc^t Cap^t Griffith & M^cRee Wilmington N.C. Accountants Office March 22^d 1798 Sir I received your letter of the 2^d Inst^t enclosing Muster & Pay rolls of the Recruits under your command up to 28 Feb^t last and the receipts of Daniel Miller for pay amounting eight Dollars & twenty six Cents, the former is suspended for want of the necessary appropriations for the present year, it is probable they will be passed in a few Days, so soon as they are the amount of funds due on the pay rolls will be remitted to you & you will receive a credit on the Books of this Office for the amount of sd Millers receipts — Sam^l &^c W Simmons Acc^t The Sec^y of War. Accountants Office March 23^d 1798 Sir M^r Dallas's letter to you of the 21^st Inst^t being I presume handed to me for the purpose of obtaining the information therein required; will accompany this, as well as my reply thereto, which you will be pleased to have transmitted to him — Sam^l &^c W Simmons Acc^t