[Endorsement, upper panel, written sideways:] W [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Jan [undecipherable] [Endorsement, middle panel:] 28 Jan 179[undecipherable] Geo. Clney [undecipherable] Geo 169 [undecipherable] [Endorsement, lower panel:] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Pay Office?] Jan [undecipherable] 1791 S. I am directed by the Sec'y of War to transmit to you the sum of One hundred & forty nine [D?] which you will receive [enclosed] in a [Public] [undecipherable] payable to [undecipherable]. You will please to negotiate the [undecipherable] & [pay] the [same] to Henry [Sherman] Esq'r to be applied by him as the Secretary of War will direct taking a receipt of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of M. Sherman in favor of [Joseph Howell?] for 169 D[undecipherable], which receipt you will [transmit] to the Sec[retary] of War. I am informed that the [undecipherable] of the Treasury has directed the Collectors of the Customs in [this] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] notes of M. [undecipherable] in [payment] for duties. If & upon [undecipherable] you will find an [undecipherable] in [negotiating] the enclosed I am con[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Geo. Clney Esq'r Providence Rhode Island [Signature: undecipherable]