Will^m Taylor Esq^r late Pay master 5^th Reg^t. Accountants' Office February 28^th 1801— Sir Your accounts for payment made to the Troops in South Carolina have undergone examination & settlement the result whereof is as follows. Balance due the United States p Statement of the P.M.G. 1220.57 From which deduct the following sums admitted to your credit at this Office viz.— Error in addition of Col^l. Smiths acc^t. for stationary V^e .26 Amount of payments made by you to sundry Officers of 5^th Reg^t. for subsistence of their servants, to which they were not intitled & has accordingly been deducted from the balances of pay &c due them respectively ............... 66.65 66.91 Leaving a balance now standing against you of Dollars 1153.66 which please to inform me in what manner it will be most convenient to refund to the United States — Sam^le W.S. [Duplicate forwarded 6 June 1801 — la Page 528]