[Address: The treasurer of the united States / Philadelphia] [Marginalia: Annexed & [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Commissioner[s] / [undecipherable] [undecipherable]] [seal] Newbern July 31^st 1795 The treasurer of the united States Philadelphia Sir you have given commission to M^r Polk supervisor of North Carolina at the end of november last to have the sum of 500 dollars paid unto me on account of my compensation as a temporary engineer of the united States, I was informed of it by M^r Howell. I have also received information from the War office of another like Sum having been ordered for use in february last. in these two informations it was said these sums were to be transmitted to me. I have likewise received letters from M^r Polk informing he had to pay these sums to me & inviting me to go to Charlotte, 300 miles from here, to receive them. I wrote to him more than four months ago to be so obliging as to order his correspondants of Newbern to pay me the whole or part of the sums for which I Should give suitable receipts, having not in my power to leave this place & avoiding the expence of such a journey, which I should have been obliged to undertake more than once & lastly that if he could not transmit that money to me, to dismiss the commission he had troubled himself with; as in his two letters, one of them here inclosed, he insists upon my going to Charlotte, I take the liberty to apply to you for my payment by the collectors of Newbern or Wilmington. I must however request of you, in case you should order my payment to Wilmington to do it before the beginning of October, as I am soon going there & intend to be back here at the end of September next. M^r Overton whom M^r Polk mentions, has been here in the beginning of may & had no instructions from M^r Polk. I nevertheless applied to him to be paid of 300 dollars which he refused doing. he only had M^r Lewis paid of 350 dollars on his giving his letters from Messrs Howell & Polk. I have also received information from the war office that M^r Overton was to transmit 400 dol^rs to me. I wrote to him at Fayetteville the 15 of may, & have not yet received any answer. The moment I received M^r Polk's answers, M^r Brian one of the receivers of Newbern told me he could pay unto me 600 dollars had he orders from M^r Polk. I Shall therefore be very much obliged to you, Sir, if previous to my Settling accounts, you would order money to be paid to me either by the Collectors or would authorise me to draw upon you on account of my compensation. I have the honor to be with great Respect Sir Your most ob^t & most humb^le Serv^t Martinon