[311] to be found here, I have to request you will forward them to this Office as early as convenient Sam B. W. Simmons Acct^t The Sec^y of War Accountants Office April 27 1798 Sir M^r Gates, agent for paying the Militia of Maryland employed against the Pennsylvania insurgents in the Year 1794, having transmitted his accounts to this Office which have undergone the necessary examination; but before a settlement can be effected, it will be necessary to fix the rate of commission; as his instructions are not sufficiently explicit on that point, he charges on the amount of payments 1¼ p C^t — I have therefore to request your decision w^ch shall govern myself accordingly — Sam B. W. Simmons Acct^t Nathaniel Rogers Esq^r Accountants Office Supervisor New Hampshire, April [undecipherable] 1798 May 31 : Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of one hundred Dollars, which you will be pleased to pay to M^r Edmund H. Quincy superintendant of the Navy Yards at Portsmouth, and take his duplicate receipts for the same, it being for his salary, from 1 January to 31 March 1798 — Sam B. W. Simmons Acct^t N.B one of the rec^ts to be transmitted to this Office