[seal] To Joseph Howell Jun^r Pay master General. Pay to Samuel Meredith Treasurer of the United States, the Sum of One thou- and Six hundred Dollars, being for the present Service of the public, to be by him reimbursed to you: for which this shall be your Warrant. [left margin, rotated:] Dollars 1600. [left margin, rotated:] the this 2 day of Reep 1789. [left margin, rotated, signature:] Joseph Howell, E^sq Given under my hand and the Seal of the Treasury this eighteenth day of October 1789 and of Independence the four- teenth. — Alexander Hamilton [undecipherable: of the Treasy] Countersigned by N^o Eveleigh Compt^r