[Endorsement on wrapper:] [undecipherable] letters [undecipherable: Tousard?] January 22^d [undecipherable] [undecipherable] done pay William Simmons Acc.^t of the War dep.^t West point Decemb.^r 19^th 1795 Sir The last letter[s] of Col. Stephen [undecipherable] included a copy of my account with the United States [strikethrough: to] the 9^th of Nov.^r last, Dated december 8^th 1795 I find in it a mistake in my favour of 6 dollars, 96 cents as you will easily perceive by the inclosed account. I beg leave Sir to remind you that having obtained of the Secretary of war three months in advance of pay and forage, in the 1^st Days of June, you observed to me that it would be more Convenient to include, in the warrant, three days of February which were due to me, in order to have my account Settled to the first of June. I did Sign it upon your books: the warrant was made in Consequence, which in this moment occasions the mistake. a fair recal of the Sums which I hitherto received and the pay due to me to the 30^th of november will make you Sensible of it — I have the honor to be Your most humble and obd.^t Serv.^t Lewis Tousard D.^r The United States in Account Current with Lewis Tousard, Major in the Art.^y & Engineers E.^r 1795 Nov.^r 29 To pay and forage from the 20^th to the 28^th of February 1795 inclusive at [undecipherable] per month ... [undecipherable] Nov.^r 30 To ditto from the 1^st of march 1795 to this date — 9 months at [undecipherable] per month ... [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] To Errors Balance ... 6 [undecipherable] 1795 March By C^sh received for three months [undecipherable] ... [undecipherable] June By Ditto on account of pay & forage ... [undecipherable] [undecipherable] By ditto for forage for March, April & May ... [undecipherable] After 30 By Ditto for Pay & forage for September 1795 at West Point ... [undecipherable] [undecipherable] By ditto for Ditto 3 for October, received at [undecipherable] ... [undecipherable] Dec.^r By ditto received by Colonel Rochefontaine on my account ... [undecipherable] 18 By Balance due to Major Tousard ... 6 96 Dollars [undecipherable] Errors excepted West Point, December 18^th 1795 Lewis Tousard * By date for forage for march, april & may 30 date I think I must have received this object, but do not remember in what from I [undecipherable] on a warrant at law [undecipherable]