have been returned, to M^r M^cCall & he has forwarded the Pay roles & receipts which were omitted in your transmission. The examination will now be gone into & when completed the result will be communicated to you — Sam^t & W^m Simmons Act^t John Kilty Esq^r Baltimore Accountants Office July 11^th 1798 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit to you the sum of Two hundred & twenty one Dollars & [undecipherable] C^ts which you will be pleased to pay to Lieut. Samuel Dyson of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers taking the necessary receipts holding him accountable for the due application thereof being for the pay of a Detachment of Recruits under his command at Fort M^c Henry — Sam^t & W^m Simmons Act^t Lieut. Samuel Dyson Fort M^c Henry near Baltimore Accountants Office July 11^th 1798. Sir I have received your letter dated 9 Inst: enclosing a muster & Pay role of a Detachment of Recruits stationed at Fort M^c Henry under your command, which have undergone the necessary examination & the result is as follows — Amount of pay Role .............. 222..32 from which deduct the following over calculations In the pay of John Pocock, Samuel Digney, Edmund Clary & Barton Yates 8 6^ts each ......... 32 . . . . James Freeman & J.W. Tubman 7 [undecipherable]^ts....... 14 William Burk .............. [undecipherable] [Page 449 YPU01]