[Page 321] Robert Johnson Esq^r Lexington, Kentucky Accountants Office May 4 1798 Sir Since writing to you on the 2^d Instant relative to the monies with which you stood charged on the books of this Office, I find on examination of the payments made by Caleb Swan P M G. that you received from him on the 11 May 1793 the sum of nine hundred & thirty six dollars & 66^⅔ for the pay due the scouts of Woodford County for the Year 1792. — I have now to request you will take immediate measures for accounting for this sum in addition to the other, as early as possible by forwarding the proper vouchers & refunding any balance which may remain unappropriated — Sam & W^m Simmons Acct^t — Lieut^t Tho^s Underwood of the Corps of A S E, Richmond V^a Accountants Office May 5 1798 May 31 Sir I received your letter of the 27 & 28 ^th Ult. — the former enclosing the certificate of the Supervisor of the contract price of ration at Richmond — the latter enclosing your account for pay as Adjutant at Fort Masac from 1 January 1796 to 1 May 1797 together with Cap^t Pike's certificate of your appointment. both of which I now return you, as there is no law to authorize the pay of a Garrison Adjutant — The amount of your account for pay & subsistence for January, February & March 1798 . . . . . . D^rs 120.60