[subject to an after examination] Sam^o du W^m Simmons Act^o William Heth Es^q Shellelah, near Richmond Accountants Office May 8^th 1798. Sir I received your letter of the 30 Ult^o enclosing Major Parkers receipt for sixty three dollars ⁵⁰/₁₀₀ which will be filed with the abstract wherein the amount has been applied to your credit. Sam^o du W^m Simmons Act^o Major Constant Freeman Savannah Georgia Accountants Office May 8^th 1798. Sir On the 17 February last the Secretary of War issued a Warrant for seventy thousand four hundred & ninety six dollars ⁵⁰/₁₀₀ 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 put in this Office — I should have forwarded duplicates of them if I thought you had not a set in your possession of this you