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^l & W Simmons Act^t John Kilty Esq^r Accountants Office Baltimore July 11^th 1798 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit to you the sum of Two hundred & twenty one Dollars & two Cents 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^l & W Simmons Act^t Lieut. Samuel Dyson Accountants Office Fort M^c Henry near Baltimore 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 Roll ..................... 222. 32. from which deduct the following over calculations In the pay of John Pocack, Samuel Digney, Edmund Clary & Barton Yates 86 C^ts each ......... .32 . . . James Freeman & J.W. Tubman 70 ......... .14 . . . William Burk ......