[Docket notation on exterior of folded document:] C. Aug't S. [undecipherable] 1^st [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Secretary of the [undecipherable] Massachusetts [undecipherable] the 1796 D^r The United States [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Fitch [undecipherable] Massachusetts [undecipherable] do a/c For his subsistance from the 17^th July 1777 By cash & supplies [undecipherable] of John [undecipherable] to the 12^th December 1777 inclusively Commissary Gen[eral] of Prisoners —— 111 3 25 is 46 7 weeks @ 2 Dollars 4/ Week —— 93 72 ———— 143 22 To balance due the United States —— 147 51 143 23 D[undecipherable] By contra balance —— 49 51 By balance to be certified on Interest For one years pay allow'd the Act of from the 24^th Nov. 1778 —— 270 49 Congress of 26^th May 1778 12 months ———— @ 26 2/3 Dollars Per Month —— 320 —— 320 —— The amount set on the Certificates for which he War Department notwithstanding his being exchanged in 1777 Accountant's Office is on every [undecipherable] sufficient to satisfy any Feb 18^th 1794 [undecipherable] of the balance — [undecipherable] Settled in pursuance of an Act of the first Session of the second [undecipherable] of the United States The Auditor of the Treasury From 27^th March 1792 —— by Joseph Howell, [undecipherable]