contained in your letter, and direct that you will immediately refund to the Pay master General the balance due — Sam^d W Simmons Acct^t Lieut^t Samuel E Dyson Port Tobacco, Maryland. Accountants Office May 8^th 1798 Sir I received your letter of the 1 Inst^t enclosing receipts for Bounties paid by you which are filed with those before sent by you, subject to an after examination — I understand at the War Office that the recruits enlisted by you, are shortly to be ordered to Baltimore where their pay can be remitted, as I find you have not hitherto received any authority to muster them, and the payments to recruits is to be regulated by the Muster Rolls — Sam^d W Simmons Acct^t Lieut^t Horatio R Dayton Elizabethtown, N. J. Accountants Office May 7^th 1798 Sir I received your letter of the 5 Inst^t enclosing one receipt for Bounty paid by you which is filed with those heretofore transmitted by you — The information that you have read in the Public papers respecting the appropriations is not correct, as none yet are passed for the Military Establishment for the present Year, you can notwithstanding make out your account for pay &c subject to the appropriations passing — Sam^d W Simmons