The Sec^y of War Accountants Office Sir June 30^th 1798. In conformity to your request the number of Clerks employed in my Office are as follows with the compensation affixed that in my opinion they respectively deserve Viz^t One Principal Clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1200.— One Book keeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900.— One examining Clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800.— 3 Ditto . . . . . . C 700 . . . . . . 2100.— one Copying ditto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.2 5500.— amount p annum agreeably to the sum allowed for Clerk hire for the Accountants Office for the Year 1797 — The business of this Office having very considerably encreased, I have been under the necessity on the 10^th May 98 to employ a Clerk in addition to the above number at a salary of 700 D^rs p annum Sam^l d^o W. Simmons Acct^t.