Fort [undecipherable] North Carolina 17^th May 179[undecipherable] Sir [undecipherable] acknowledg[e] the rec[ei]pt of [undecipherable] your letter of the [undecipherable] I have hitherto [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the custom with me to calculate the odd days in the discharges gotten at 30 days to the month. Doctor [undecipherable] observes to me that, while he was Pay Master to the Troops in Georgia, it was the mode directed to be used by Major [undecipherable], he was then their Agent, which was always followed. This was founded on a Table of the pay of the army which the Agent brought with him, from M^r [undecipherable] Office, which was calculated on the sam[e] [undecipherable] If a man is paid for the day of his enlistment, and the [underline: nominal] day of his discharge, he receives n days pay more than the term of his enlistment, as for example — A man who enlists for a year on the 1^st of January, his time expires with the end of the 31^st [undecipherable] [One page of this document is wholly illegible] [William Simmons Esq^re / Accountant to the / Department of War / Philadelphia] [undecipherable: postal and administrative notations] [C.M. undecipherable] [Mail]