in the Account there are ten Dollars stated, to have been paid to Charles Farley for Bounty and you have transmitted receipts from him for sixteen Dollars. It will be necessary that you obtain & transmit William & Harbins receipt for two Dollars that you state to have paid for an attachment against him; you state four Dollars Bounty paid to Abiel Abbey and transmitted his receipt, but for two Dollars, and thirteen Cents; you state ten Dollars paid, to Stephen Dorsey and transmitted his receipt but for said Dollars, you have not transmitted any evidence of Soldiers having reinlisted who have you stated the Bounty as such in your account, you have not in all cases withheld four Dollars Bounty from your recruits until they were transferred to the Company or Corps in which they were to serve; I have to request an explanation of the aforesaid defects & remarks in your next Letter so as to enable the stating of the accounts as soon as possible — I observe you have promoted & made up for pay a fifth Sergeant in your Detachment, when the law allows but four to a Company. I have admitted it for this time, but will require some explanation of the necessity before it can be continued — On enquiry at the War Office I am informed L^t Gesele is still in the service of the U. S. The Sec^y of War is the proper Officer to be informed of your being in want of Recruiting money & Cloathing — March 25^th 1798. The foregoing is a copy of the letter intended to have been Sam^l B^r. forwarded to you in answer to yours of the 31^st6 — but has been withheld for want of appropriations passing an acct^d W Simmons Acc^t John Chester Esq^r Superint^d Wethersfield. Accountants Office 1798. Sir The Treasurer of the United States will advance the sum of two hundred, sixty five Dollars and sixty six Cents which you will be pleased to pay to Capt Edward Miller at Middletown taking the necessary receipts holding him accountable being for pay of himself & Ensign Samuel Pannell, & the Recruits under his command for January 1798. Sam^l B^r W Simmons