[3] [45] [City of New York to wit —] New York March 2^d 1797 The Commissioner [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] to whom [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Captain John Thompson for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] That there appears to be a balance of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Hundred] Nine [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Dollars due to said [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from at this [undecipherable] settlement by his own [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] Colonel Edward [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the sum of one thousand and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Dollars for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Colonel has produced an entry [undecipherable] the account [undecipherable] Books and attested [undecipherable] the same has been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to Cap^t Thompson That Captain Thompson [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] attested [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he never did receive the said sum or [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and twenty Dollars or any part of it for his own use; that of the United States — That Colonel [undecipherable] has been called on by your Commissioner to support his charge of this sum, which he says he can do; and that the same