Gale [undecipherable: Esq^r] Supervisor of the revenue at Balti- more of three hundred dollars being in advance on account of your compensation as a temporary engineer for which you will please to sign to M^r Gale duplicate recepts to be accountable for the same — I am Sir &c Joseph Howell Monsieur John Venamount Temporary Engineer Alexandria Virginia --- W.D. Accountants Office Sir July 11^th 1794 The Secretary of War has directed a remittance to you through the hands of Colonel Covington Supervisor, of four hundred and Se- venty one dollars being for your extra expences at Norfolk for the performance of certain public objects at that post relative to the Fortifications and Neutrality of the U.States — As it is not intended to make this pay- ment at this moment public I have simply en-