[Docket: George Fleming / rec^d [undecipherable] March 15^th [96]] West Point, March 10^th 1796. Sir, Your three favors dated the 24^th ultims I received the 2^d instant. I have drawn upon Col^o Fish for the 80 dollars and 23 cents, the January pay of the ordnance detachment, and forwarded for him at sometime my duplicate receipts for the same. I now enclose you the ordnance detachment's receipts for their said January's pay — a pay roll for their February pay amounting to 117 dollars & 90 cents — and a packet of as many vouchers for contingent expenses as I could get ready to send by this post, amounting 2011 dollars & 10 cents. I have enclosed this day, agreeably to the information you gave [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] the Treasury [undecipherable] vouchers for [undecipherable] get ready, amount 156 dollars & 32 cents. I have directed the head carpenter to measure the public buildings — he is now making a list of them — I expect by next post I shall be able to forward such a return of them as you mentioned in one of your last letters. Col. Rochefontaine informs me he is making out an estimate to be forwarded for money for public purposes. My not knowing what sum I will be allowed for my salary to the last of last year, prevents my sending my account for it. As the hon. the Secretary of War is unusually very deeply immersed in public business on his first coming into office, I must not to trouble him with a letter on such a trifling subject as my salary — I therefore beg you will excuse my forwarding to you, for his perusal, a copy of a letter I received from General Knox, when Secretary of War, relative to my salary — and further excuse my requesting you to mention to the Secretary of War, that what Gen^l Knox meant by rations in his letter, was principally the use of the tillable land at the public tract here, which I have been at the expense of fencing in myself — and that Col^d [undecipherable: probable reading "Poinsard"] on his coming here told me he would send it all for the use of the artillerists — so that for my rations, I got only some trifling pay for the pasturing of a few teams I had employed for the public, (and the expense I was at of keeping up the fence I suppose amounted to a considerable part of what I received for the pasturing) and a few tons of intolerably bad hay I cut in a couple of small rough boggy meadows, the cutting of which amounts to very nearly as much as the hay is worth after it is cut & stacked. When I made out my account for salary to the last of June, it was [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] business commenced on a large scale. I then expected I would be allowed for my rations. I am, with great respect, Sir, Your most obedient Humble servant, G. Fleming. William Simmons Esq^r. [Copy] Department of War, Dec^r 31, 1794. Sir, I should at the moment of retiring from this not perform what I think a point of duty were I to omit expressing my satisfaction at your zeal in transacting the important business which has been committed to your charge and in compensating in some degree your highly laborious services. I therefore think it your due to allow you a compensation of eight hundred dollars for the past year — and to appoint you to carry on the works of West Point the next year at the rate of one thousand dollars p^r annum to include all allowances excepting the rations heretofore granted which are to be continued. If the repairs of Fort Clinton and the repairs of Fort [undecipherable: probable reading "Putnam"] should not be carried on then the rate of compensation to be at six hundred & fifty dollars — the difference between the sum appropriated & the sum herein stipulated to be made up out of the contingencies of the War Office. I am, Sir, with high esteem, Your obedient servant Cap^t George Fleming (Signed) H. Knox ([undecipherable])