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Noting a Credit on the Account of Simeon North for 490 Pistols: Page #2

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[perpendicular to text, up left side of page, handwritten] Duplicate forwarded 6 June 1801_ Sec Page 528.

Accountants' Office
February 28.th 1801__

Will.m Taylor Esq.
late Pay Master 5thReg.t_,
[undecipherable]

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 & Statem.t of the TMG. 1220.57
From which deduct the following sums admitted to your credit at this Office [undecipherable] __
Error in addition of Coll.o Smiths acco.t for stationary [undecipherable] 26 Amount of payments made by you to sundry Officers of 5 Reg.t for subsistence of their Servants, to which they were not entitled & has accordingly been deducted from the balances of pay & due them respectively - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 66. 65. 66. [undecipherable]

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 to the United States __

I am [undecipherable]
W.S.

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February 28th 1801.
Caleb [undecipherable] Esq."
T.H.G.

Sir

On settlement of the accounts of Will.m Taylor late Pay master 5th Reg.t of Infantry - there appears an overpayme [sic] made by him to Lieu.t W.m F Deveaux of the 2@ Reg.t a [undecipherable] on the Pay Rolls of his Detachment being made up & paid from the 4" instead of the 27.th June 1798, the date of his acceptance, making a difference of 23 doll.rs which sum you