Ebenezer Stevens Esq^r N^o 2 N. York Accountants Office September 16^th 1799 Sir Your accounts having been summarily on examining Clerk, he finds sundry objectionable charges in Vouchers & statement, of which you have rendered — be pleased to have reference thereto & to state on whose authority the payments have been made with such other information as may occur to you necessary to a full explanation & elucidation thereof — which is essential before they are decided on, or me. Vouchers N & W, in account to war returns are — the former is for a charge proper to be exhibited at the Navy Department & the latter is the account of John M^c delin, mentioned in the enclosed remarks. I am &^c W S Edward Carrington Esq^r Supervisor Richmond. Sep^t 16^th 1799 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of twenty seven dollars, being for the pay of Thomas Simmons, Serjeant Major in Coll^o Benj^a Regiment Virginia militia, while on the Western expedition from 2^d Sep^t to 25^th December 1794 inclusively, which sum you will please to pay him taking the necessary receipt. I am &^c W S