causing a remittance to be made to you for the amount that may be found due on them, I will also recommends to send you a certain sum for the recruiting Service, out of which you can pay the claims for bounties that you are satisfied are due to the detachment under your command, in the mean time it is proper to inform you that there are but three dollars & ninety cents, due to John Lucketts for balance of bounty — as you stand charged with a considerable sum of money on the books of this Office for the pay of the troops at Oswego I request you will transmit receipt roles for the same as soon as possible in order to exonerate you from the said charge — I enclose you a copy of the articles of War to which you can refer in cases of purchasing Soldiers cloathing by civilians, I have no other late law relative to the military Establishment that can be spared out of my Office at present Sam B[undecipherable] W.Simmons Sect[undecipherable] Capt.^t Michael Hallison Accountants Office Fort Johnston, near Charleston April May 31 1798 S^ir You will receive from Daniel Stevens, Esq: supervisor at Charleston the sum of five hundred & twenty Dollars & twenty one cents for which you will be pleased to give him the necessary receipts holding yourself accountable being for pay of yourself and the detachment under your command for Jan: 18 179[undecipherable]