Capt Griffith J McRee Collector Wilmington Accountants Office 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 [undecipherable] to 31 March 98 inclusive . . . . . . . . . 3.10 — 345.3 Bro^t over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 From which deduct pay made up for for^t James Williams for Septem^r to be withheld until it is known until it is known that he has not received it for that period from L^t And^w Marschalk to whom it was remitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 341 which leaves an amount due of three hundred & forty one Dollars & ^/oo, which will be remitted to you by the Treasurer of the United States & for which you will be pleased to transmit the Rolle 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 letters the [undecipherable] 5 the 15 Ulto by the former you would learn that your request respecting your Recruiting account was then complied with, & the balance then due to you [undecipherable] thirty eight dollars [was remitted] thro' the hands of James Read Esq. then Collector at Wilmington since then, I received your letter of the 8^th Ulto enclosing the receipt for Bounty, for ten Dollars of Reuben Corkins which will be held subject to a future settlement, my last letter informed you that (by order of the Secretary of War,) a further remittance of two hundreds dollars for the use of the Recruiting service had then made by the Treasurer of the United States — Sam^l d^u M. Simmons Acct P.S. Enclosed is a receipt sole to govern you in making the payments —