kind, proof is required of the prisoner of the facts he alledges. If he can produce none, then he must make deposition of the circumstances attending his Capture, relating particularly where he was taken, what Company he belonged to at the time, how he was released, where and when he arrived from Captivity to his place of Residence; and the pay he received, and from who. This done and the deposition transmitted to this Office, the amount found due will be paid him. I am &c. Wm Simmons Acc^t Nicholas Fish Esq^r } Accountants Office Sup^t New York } Sir Aug^t 23. 1796 The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Thirty two Dollars; which you will please to pay to Captain Stats Morris at West Point, being due to him for Bounty paid two Recruits & premium for enlisting them; and take his duplicate Receipts for the same. I am &c. Wm Simmons Acc^t Jonathan Jackson Esq^r } Accountants Office Sup^t Boston } Aug^t 24^th 1796 Sir! I received your Letter of the 17^th inst. enclosing Caleb Gibbs' receipt for one hundred & eighty seven Dollars 51¹⁰⁰; which sum will be passed to your Credit on the Books of this Office. I am &c Wm Simmons Acc^t M^rs Sally Greaton Accountants Off[ice] Marblehead Massachusetts } Madam I received your letter of the 16^th ins^t. and agreeably to your request you will receive from Jonⁿ Jackson Esq^r Supervisor Boston the sum of ninety dollars on acc^t of your husband's pay. For which sum you will give as usual you receipts. Captain Greaton to be held accountable. I am. Wm Simmons Jonathan Jackson Esq^r Sir Accountants Office Sup^t Boston Aug^t 24. 1796 You will receive from The Treasurer of the United States the sum of ninety Dollars to be paid to M^rs Sally Greaton on account of her Husband's Richard H. Gre[aton's] pay as Captain in the Service of the United States, he to be accountable, for which sum you will take her receipts accordingly. I am &c. Wm Simmons Constant Freeman Esq^r } Accountants Office Savannah, Georgia } Sir August 24^th 1796 I received your letter of the 29^th ul[timo]. The money to compleat the pay, Subsistence & Forage of the Troops to the 1^st June last has been forwarded to Daniel Stevens Esq^r Supervisor at Charleston. Remittance to compleat their pay from time to time will take place [strikethrough: as speedily as possible] when circumstances will admit of the measure. The pay Master has not yet settled his accounts for the period that will embrace Keppard & White's Discharges. I cannot therefore answer your question relative to any Balance due them. However if they have any thing due them, it will be paid at this office to them or their legal Attorney by their producing their certificates of discharges, which generally mention the time they were paid to. The discharge signed by General Wayne is the most correct & therefore I require in every case. Soldiers have generally been allowed a premium of 10 Dollars for apprehending a Deserter to be stopped from the Deserters Pay. — This charge is considered to include every expense on the part of the United States attending the taking of a Deserter. If there is any other mode of making remittance that will be more convenient for you, I will, if possible, adopt it. At present it appears to me a tedious Job for you to go to Charleston to receive every remittance that takes place from this Office. I will thank you to write me fully on this subject. As regards an allowance to Ens^r M^cCall for his Services as Pay master to the Troops at Fort Fidins [undecipherable: Fort Fidelis?], I have to observe that no allowance is made to any Officer in the Army for doing such Duty to so small a number of Troops as are at Fort Fidins [undecipherable]. At the different [Posts] occupied in the Western Country the Commanding Office[r]