[Docket, cover page: Watertown Dec^r 12^th 1798 / Daniel Jackson / Maj^r [undecipherable] & Eng^r] [(Bounty accounts enc'd same Day) Sgt: [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Regt 3 mos. out 1 troops " 25t 0 [undecipherable] 1 " 3 " 1 " 3 [undecipherable] forty [undecipherable] [undecipherable] mos] Watertown Decem. 12 1798 Sir Enclosed are Captain Stoddards and Gates's Pay Roll — Captain Stoddard has not included the Bounty due to each Recruit — I think in the odd days he has made in his pay roll one day to much; also an error of 16 Cents in the casting of Nathaniel Brewster's wages. — Captain Gates has made his Pay roll out according to a form I gave him; — he has also paid the Soldiers some more Bounty since his and my monthly Returns. — Jacob Townsend was Returned the 4^th of Octo: he was Enlisted the first day of that month, which error I shall rectify with Cap^t Gates. For the later I will so order, that the Soldiers have no more Bounty paid, after I transmit you my Monthly Returns but made out in the pay roll, according to the 30^th Section of the recruiting Instructions, so as to prevent the increase and perplexity of duplicate Receipts — I wish you to favour me with a form and Mode, and whether it will not be for the conveniency of your Office, to have all the Pay rolls for the Recruits made out alike and up to a certain period. if so I am certain I could better Inspect the Pay rolls & my Returns, that I transmit to the War Department — I enclose you Cap^t Stoddard's duplicate Recep^t for Bounties Paid previous to the first of October — I have Inspected his and Cap^t Gates's Receipts for the Months of October & November, and wish to know whether they must be transmitted to Your Office for Inspection. I am Sir — yours with Respect William Simmons Esq^r Act. Dep^t of War Daniel Jackson