[N° 1717] [REGISTERED.] W Sargent Rec^d all^t N° 1341 for One hundred & Twenty five Doll — on acco^t Joseph Howell Rec^d Warrant N° 2418 — for Sixty two Dollars & 50 Cent in full of the within — Samuel Hodgdon Attorney — [317 4 No 4 Page 91] Exam^d [undecipherable] Power of Att^y with the [undecipherable] D^r The United States To Winthrop Sargent For his Salary as Secretary to the Territory North west of the Ohio River, from the 1 July to the 30^th September 1791. 3 m^ths @ 750 Dol^s p^r Ann^m Dol^s 187 50 Of the above Sum there is due the [undecipherable: subscriber] agreeably to the enclosed receipt of Winthrop Sargent, One Hundred and twenty five dollars for which the [undecipherable] payment and the [undecipherable] to be placed to the Credit of [Winthrop] Sargent on the Books of the Treasury — Joseph Howell October 14^th 1791 — Comptrollers Office Novem^r 1^st 1791. Exam^d in [undecipherable] James Graham Philadelphia January 29^th 1791 Sir On demand, please pay to Joseph Howell acting paymaster General, or Order, Five hundred dollars, so much received of him in pursuance of directions from the Sec^y of War of the 28^th Ins^t, being an advance on account of my Salary, as Secretary to the Territory North West of the Ohio River for the present Year — Winthrop Sargent To Alexander Hamilton Esq^r. Secretary of the Treasury of the United States