[Docket: Geo. Fleming / recd [undecipherable] 15^th [undecipherable] / [96]] West Point March 10^th. 1796 Sir, Your three favors dated the 24^th ultimo I received the 2^d instant. I have drawn upon Col. Fish for the 80 dollars and 23 cents, the January pay of the ordnance detachment and forwarded for him at sometimes my duplicate receipts for the same. I now enclose you the ordnance detachment's receipt for their said January's pay — a pay roll for their February pay amounting to 17 dollars & 93 cents — and a packet of as many vouchers for contingent expenses as I could get ready to send by this post, amounting 2011 dollars & 40 cents. I have enclosed [this] day, agreeably to the information you gave [undecipherable] of the Treasury [undecipherable] get ready, amount 156 dollars & 52 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. Clarkson 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 honorable the Secretary of War is consequently very deeply immersed in public business on his first coming into office, I [undecipherable] 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 requesting you to mention to the Secretary of War, that what General Knox meant by rations in his letter, was principally the use of the tillable land and the public tract here, which [undecipherable] always been at the expense of fencing in crops — that [undecipherable] on his coming here told me he would send it all for the use of the artillery — is, 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: the money busin] 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^re