surgeons mate for may June 1798, for which sum you will take his receipts as usual — Sam^l & W Simmons Acct^t Cap^t James Read Accountants Office Easton Pennsylvania July 31^st 1798 Sir I received your letter of the 29 Inst: enclosing Receipts for Bounties paid by you which are filed subject to a future examination on the settlement of your Recruiting account. — In future I have to request that your trans- mission of Bounty receipts may be accompanied with a list of the sign- ers specifying the amount paid to each — Sam^l W Simmons Acct^t The Secretary of War Accountants Office Sir July 30^th 1798 By your letter of the 27 Inst: you mention that It would be proper that I should arrange the compensation to my Clerks, conformably to your letter of this 30 June to the Secretary of the Treasury — It is very much my wish that the salary of the Clerks in my Office should be so arranged as to give satisfaction & to do them that justice they are entitled to; but from the objection I pointed out to you by my letter of the 5 July Instant, I am at a loss to know how it can be done out of the sum you have appropriated to this Office for the present Year, If the additional Clerks that I was under the necessity to employ from the increase of business attached to this Office by the several late acts [Page 479 YPU01]