to be found here, I have to request you will forward them to this Office as early as convenient Sam B° W Simmons Acct^t The Sec.^y of War Accountants Office Sir April 27 1798. M^r Gates, agent for paying the Militia of Maryland employed against the Pennsylvania insurgents in the Year 1794. having transmitted his accounts to this Office which have undergone the necessary examination; but before a settlement can be effected, it will be necessary to fix the rate of commission as his instructions are not sufficiently explicit on that point, he charges on the amount of payments 1½ p^r C^t— I have therefore to request your decision w^ch shall govern myself accordingly— Sam B° W Simmons Acct^t Nathaniel Rogers Esq^r Accountants Office Supervisor New Hampshire, [strikethrough: April 27 1798.] Sir May 31^st The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of one hundred Dollars, which you will be pleased to pay to M^r Edmund H Quincy superintendant of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, and take his duplicate receipts for the same, it being for his salary, from 1 January to 31 March 1798.— Sam B° W Simmons Acct^t N B one of the rect^s to be transmitted to this Office