be permitted to draw, & when presented here will be [in?] the proper order — This mode has been adopted for pay[ing] all Troops at a distance from the Seat of Government, where regular transmissions would be attended with inconvenience & risk, yet has been found very convenient to the Government as well as Individuals who purchase the Bills — When the Agents for those posts Shall be designated by the Secretary of War information no doubt will be given thereto particularly when he draws Bills — Sam ^l W. Simmons Acct ^t --- Caeb Swan Esq^r PM&. Cincinnati Sir Accountants Office September 5^th 1798 I have received your three Letters dated 6 Ulto the one enclosing an account of the Bills you have drawn on the Secretary of War from N^o 247 to 265. the others relating to Recruiting accounts & more particularly to that of Lieut^t. Parkison. It is to be lamented that on such occasions sufficient time is not to be had to compleat the examination properly, it would prevent much difficulty here in the reexamination — Sam ^l W. Simmons Acct ^t