Capt. Griffith & McKee Accountants Office Collector Wilmington June 5, 1798 Sir The Pay rolls of the Recruits late under your command up to the 1^st. April last have been examined & the following is the result viz: amount as stated by you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .344.93 To which add pay of Samuel Baker (on furlough) from 8^th. to 31 March 98 inclusive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.10 345.3 From which deduct pay made up for for Serj^t. James Williams for September to be withheld until it is known whether it is known that he has not received it for that period from L^t. And^w. Marschalks to whom it was remitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/ 341 which leaves an amount due of three hundred & forty one Dollars & ⁷/oo, which will be remitted to you by the Treasurer of the United States & for which you will be pleased to transmit the Role of the Individuals to exonerate you being held accountable for the same on the Books of this Office — You will ere this sum have received my letter the 6^th & the 15 Ult^o. by the former you would learn that your request respecting your Recruiting account was then complied with, & the balance then due to you [strikethrough: thirty eight dollars] was thro' the hands of James Read Esq. then Collector at Wilmington since then, I received your letter of the 8^th. Ult^o. enclosing the receipt for Bounty for ten Dollars of Reuben Perkins which will be held subject to a future settlement, my last letter info[rmed] you that (by order of the Secretary of War,) a further remittance of two hundred dollars for the use of the Recruiting service had then made by the Treasurer of the United States — Sam^o. &^c. M. Simmons Acct. P.S. Enclosed is a receipt role to govern you in making the payments