[Page 499] & mentioned in your letter were duly received but an answer to them was suspended under an idea that the Secretary of War would grant you early permission to visit this place & then you could receive any Pay & muster Rolls which were wanting & if you were at a loss for additional instructions they might then be given — I have only time now to inform you that the Pay rolls & accounts of Cap^t Palsche have been copied & certified agreeably to your wish & they with one set of the Copies of Randolphs Rolls are enclosed for your government in making the payments — I hope they will arrive before you leave Savannah; if not, you no doubt have left an agent with full instructions to conduct the business in your absence — Sam^l Y^c Peter Hagner Ac^t C^t Cap^t John Henry New York Sir, Accountants Office August 8^th 1798. I have received your letter dated the 7 Inst. enclosing a certificate relative to Samuel Eaton — Mr Freeman's O. M^r has been frequently written to on the subject & has been told that the Secretary of War had never received the sentence of the Court martial on this subject; — The question which M^r Freeman stated was whether a soldier confined by civil process was obliged to make good the time he was so confined, to the Public by prolonging the term of his enlistm