[for Settlement of their Recruiting accounts] Irons 8^th 94^t Lieu^t & John Hancockshom? Hamperville 7^a Accountants Office August 8^th 1799 Sir You will receive from McLeans bar, the Sum of two hundred fifty six Dollars & 7^tm being for pay &forage of the Detachment under your command from 1 April To 30 June 1799 — also a further sum of fifty nine Dollars & 7^ny being balance due on settlement, of your Recruiting account including your pay to 30 June 1799 © of ten Sheets herewith for your government. for which sums you will be pleased to transmit your duplicate receipts bearing yourself accountable for the disposition thereof — On examining the muster rolls of your Detachment from 1 December 1798 to 31 March 1799, I find that Henry Burrows signs as Recruiter for D^r H. Simmers Corporal Dennis, tho' he has been admitted to your Squad, it is necessary that you forward to this Office the authority on which Burrows rec^d his pay — As soon as you have obtained the signatures to the within receipt rolls, it is to be returned to this Office, but refer to exonerate you from the charge — from &^c WL