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     I have received your letter of this date respecting the quantum of compensation to be allowed to Colonel heath, as against for paying the year 1794 replace with the Virginia militia called out to suppress the insurrection at the westward in the year 1794, wherein you request me to state first, in what respects, the performance of his duties has differed from the other agents employed in the same service. Second, whether it appears that the mode in which he has done the business, has been attended with a greater saving to the public, then the mark mode in which it has been executed by the other agents.
 
     I have received your letter of this date respecting the quantum of compensation to be allowed to Colonel heath, as against for paying the year 1794 replace with the Virginia militia called out to suppress the insurrection at the westward in the year 1794, wherein you request me to state first, in what respects, the performance of his duties has differed from the other agents employed in the same service. Second, whether it appears that the mode in which he has done the business, has been attended with a greater saving to the public, then the mark mode in which it has been executed by the other agents.
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    In reply thereto I can observe that Col. Heth has not confined his payments
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of the additional pay to the period allowed on former payrolls, which he said to be a General order, but has paid them only for the period of service actually
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performed by them which he obtained by references to Muster Rols and other documents, which must have been atteded with considerable labor and attention to the public interest, and he has produced the receipts of the INdividuals in a satisfactory manner. There are only two other agents who have redered their accounts to this office neither of which have undergone such an