make this representation [to you,] but have considered myself led to it, by the questions asked me, & a duty I owe to my Country Sam M^r W Simmons Acct^t Captⁿ Griffith J M^cRee Wilmington, N C^o Sir Accountants Office May 4^th 1798 I received your letter of the 4 Inst^t inclosing your recruiting account & vouchers, also muster & Pay rolls for March, of the detachment under your command. the former has undergone examination and found free of error, you will accordingly receive the balance due on it, being thirty eight dollars from James Read Esq^re Collector at Wilmington on your giving them the necessary receipts for the same. The latter has also been examined and to it has been added the balance of your pay up to the 31 ult^o and the pay of Samuel Baker a private on furlough which additions create an amount of two hundred & ten dollars & thirty cents, on which sum I have reported, and which is now awaiting the passing of the appropriation law for the present Year, Sam M^r W Simmons Acct^t James Read Esq^re Collector, Wilmington N C^o Accountants Office May the 4, 1798 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Two hundred & ten Dollars & thirty cents, which you will be pleased to pay to Captⁿ Griffith J M^cRee, at the Rendezvous at Wilmington, taking the necessary receipts holding him accountable being, for pay of himself from N January to 31 March 1798 inclusive and for pay of the recruits under his command for March 98 Sam J^s W Simmons