[undecipherable: Foreman] Cheesman Constructor of the Frigate building at New York Department of War Accountants Office April 5. 1796 Sir You will receive from Nicholas Fish Esq^r supervisor of New York the sum of Five hundred Dollars — being for your salary from 1^st Jan^y to 31 March 1796 for which sum you will please sign duplicate Receipts Yours &c William Simmons Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor New York Department of War Accountants Office 5 April 1796 Sir The Treasury will remit to you the sum of Five hundred Dollars which you will please pay to Foreman Cheesman, Constructor of the Frigate building at New York for his salary from 1^st Jan^y to 31 March 1796 also the further sum of Ninety Dollars which please pay to Frederick Fring at West Point Craig for his salary as Assistant Storekeeper from 1^st Jan^y to 31^st March 1796 for which sums you will please take, duplicate receipts I am &c William Simmons Nath^l Gorham Esq^r Sup^r Boston Department of War Accountants Office 5 April 1796 Sir The Treasury of the United States will remit you One hundred and Eighty eight Dollars which you will please pay to Caleb Gibbs Clerk of the Navy Yard at Boston being for his salary from 1^st of Jan^y to 31 March 1796 & for Stationary furnished by him for which sum you will please take duplicate Receipts I am &c William Simmons