[Docketing notations, upper right, written at angle: [undecipherable] Col. / Freeman [undecipherable] / 15 July [17]9[undecipherable] / received [undecipherable] / rec^d 20^th / ans 23^d] [Address panel: William Simmons Esquire / Accountant of the War Departm. / Philadelphia.] West Point, July, 15^th 1798. Sir, I have received your letter of the 9^th instant with its inclosure. I have in consequence requested Lieutenant Branfy to proceed to New York with my Duplicate receipts to receive from the Supervisor there one thousand three hundred seventy Dollars, thirty five cents, being the amount of the, pay, &c of this garrison for May and June last. In your corrections for the pay roll for June, I observe that the pay of Samuel Caton, and John to. Brownfor is deducted. On the muster roll it would appear that their times had expired; but the sentence of a court martial has authorized the commanding officer at West Point to detain them as soldiers, till the opinion of the Attorney General be known, whether they should serve or not the time beyond their enlistment, during which they were held for their own debts by the civil authority. This decision of the court was transmitted to the Secretary of War on the 3^d or 4^th of May; but there has not, as yet, been any order made known on the subject at West Point. Brownfor is now in Philadelphia, but Caton will, in the course of three weeks, have served for the time during which he was absent. The propriety, therefore, of my paying him his arrearages of pay for the time which he has actually served, is submitted. With respect, I am Sir, Your most obedient servant A Freeman Lieut. T.P.M. William Simmons Esquire Accountant of the War Department