[June 30 1798] Accountants Office June 30^th 1798 Sir 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. One Principal Clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dollars, 1200.– One Book keeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , 900. One examining Clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , 800.– Three D^o . . . . . . . . @700 Dollars . . . ,2100.– One Copying D^o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , 500.– Amount for annum Dollars, 5500.– agreably 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 30^th May 1798 to employ a Clerk in addition to the above number at a Salary of 700 Dollars p annum. I am Sir Your obed^t Serv^t [undecipherable: probable reading Simmons] [undecipherable: probable reading Acct Dep^t War] The Secretary of War [Docket calculations:] [undecipherable] av. of 1 . . . . . . . . . . 16 11 41 50 acct [undecipherable] last year — 5500 — [undecipherable] 5950 7½ add [undecipherable] Clerk — 450 War[undecipherable] — 7/519/1 50 War Office — . D^o 8 Clerk 7 . . . . . . . 761