Lieut^t John G. M^cWhorter Pay master 11 Reg^t Elizabethtown N. S. Sir I have received your letter of the 2^d and you will by this days mail receive from Samuel Shaw & Clarke in the War Office the sum of two thousand Dollars on account of the subsistence of the Officers of the 11 to^th Reg^t Infantry to whom you will please be forwarded your receipt. I have advised the Paymaster General of this remittance & requested him to furnish you with the necessary instructions relative to the disbursement thereof. You will in future correspond with him on the subject of your accounts as they are transferred to him for settlement, agreeably to which I formerly wrote you on this subject. I am Y^rs W. S. Lieut^t John Duer 1^st Reg^t of Infantry New York Sir I have received your letter of the 1^st instant and in reply have to inform you that no monies have been advanced to the Pay masters of the regiments on[l]y addition to the 4 months Pay already received. That it being determined when further payments shall be made application must be made by the Pay masters to the Pay master General. that being through which all future payments are to be made — I am Y^rs W. S.