[subject to an after examination] Sam^o W. Simmons Acct^o William Heth Esq^r Shellelah, near Richmond Sir Accountants Office May 8^th 1798. I received your letter of the 30 Ult^o enclosing Major Parkers receipt for sixty three dollars &^co. which will be filed with the abstract wherein the amount has been applied to your credit. Sam^o W. Simmons Acct^o Major Constant Freeman Savannah Georgia Sir Accountants Office May 8^th 1798 On the 17 February last the Secretary of War issued a Warrant for seventy thousand four hundred & ninety six dollars &^co. the amount of the Estimate appropriated by Congress for the pay of the authorized Militia & Scouts of the State of Georgia, agreeably to the enclosed copy of said Estimate. This sum has been placed to your Credit in the Branch Bank of Charleston S^o C^o. subject to your order, agreeably to the enclosed copy of the Cashiers Letter, to the Treasurer of the United States on the subject. The Pay & Muster Rolls of these troops are not in this Office. I should have forwarded duplicates of them if I thought you had not a set in your posession. of this you