W.D. Accountants Office October 16^th 1794 Sir The Treasurer has remitted to Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor of New York to be transmitted to you the sum of Ten thousand dollars being for the incidental expenses of the Ordnance Department for repairs and articles directed to be made and purchased by the President & act of the 21^st of March 1794 to which you will please accept to be accountable — Your letter of the 7^th inst with the enclosures have come to hand which are under an examination. I am Sir &c [undecipherable: probable reading "Reg'r Militia"] in the Absence of the Accountant George Fleming Esq^r West Point.