[N^o 1717] [REGISTERED.] [W Sargent] [Rec^d att^y N^o 1341] [for One hundred &] [Twenty five] [Doll^rs on acco^t] [Joseph Howell] [Rec^d Warrant N^o 2418 –] [for Sixty two Dollars 50 Cents] [in full of the within –] [Samuel Hodgdon] [Attorney] [317 4 N^o 4 Page 91] [Exam^d J[undecipherable]] [Power of Att[orne]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 [undecipherable] at 750 Dol^s p^r Ann[um] Dol^s 187 50 Of the above sum there is due the [undecipherable] agreeably to the enclosed receipt of [undecipherable] Sargent, One Hundred and twenty five dollars, for which he request payment and the [undecipherable] to be placed to the Credit of [undecipherable] Sargent on the Books of the Treasury — Joseph Howell October 14^th 1791 – Comptrollers Office Novem^r 1^st 1791. Exam^d [undecipherable] [undecipherable] James Graham Comptroller of the Treasury 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[retary] 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