[undecipherable] [Accountants Office] [free Office] H. Simmons Esquire Knoxville Tennefsee David [Henley?] (W) [Endorsement: a [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Simmons / enclosing Cap^t [undecipherable] / the account for Richard [undecipherable]] Accountants Office June 2^d 1797. Sir I received your letter of the 25^th April enclosing the account of Cap^tn Richard Sparks which I return to you for payment after examination by you. It will however be necessary for Cap^t Sparks to produce either a Certificate of the Pay Master Shewing the amount due him, or he must attest thereto a Magistrate. - this being the rule in all ca[ses] had at this Office, and which you we[re] [undecipherable] in all [undecipherable: settlements?] of officers accounts similarly situated. I am Sir Your mo ob^t Ser^v H. Simmons Acct David Henley Esq^r. Knoxville Tennesse.