Cap^t Samuel Eakins Accountant's Office Richmond V^a June 2, 1799 Sir, I have reciev'd your letter of the 20^th With enclosing the receipt bill for pay of your Detachment for the month of March 1799 which has been examined and correct, amounting to One hundred eighty three Dollars 47/100 which sum will be paid to your order on the Books of this Office — In respect to the reasons known by you on as all have [undecipherable], no occasion can be had contradictory to the one [undecipherable] of refusal of — it is not contemplated by law that any Officer should draw returns for account; [undecipherable] that a regular [undecipherable], as in that one there is no reference to the Minister [undecipherable] as it would, was he not a servant, amen his release in common with the other [undecipherable] in the law — You will therefore consider yourself chargeable as pointed out in my letter of the 6^th April last; — W^m Simmons [undecipherable] Lieut^t Ferd^d d. Claiborne June 7, 1799 Fort Norfolk — Sir I have reciev'd your letter of the 16 Ulti^mo enclosing the following receipt —Viz^t receipt John [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for subsistence [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — — 97.24 do of L^t Rich^d [undecipherable: Blattes?] for his pay [undecipherable] — — d^o of the date of his resignation — — [undecipherable] d^o of [undecipherable] Bay[undecipherable] [undecipherable] in your [undecipherable] his pay for Dec^r 1798 — — — — — 3 — 176.24