Pay Office New York 22^d Jany 1790 Sir By direction of the Secretary at War I transmit you by M^r Richard [undecipherable] Fifty [undecipherable] for the purpose of [undecipherable] the receipt of this Money you will please to acknowledge either to the Sec^y at War or to Sir Your Ob^d Serv^t Joseph Howell Jun^r D^r John Peirce Artly Federal Artillery West Point [New York 22^d Jany 1790 to D^r John Peirce — Artly Ent^d]