[The Accountant of the War Department] [Freeman's Received rec^d 26 [undecipherable] 96 Ans^d 27^th] West Point, April 22^d 1796. Sir I have received your letter of the 8^th instant, and from paying attention to the directions it contains, beg in the mean time inclose you the following vouchers, for payments made at West Point. viz^t Ration list for the purpose, or for the month of January 1796 of the Corps of artillerists and Engineers at West Point, for ration balance amounting to the [undecipherable] prices paid [undecipherable] the States, [undecipherable] one as a. [undecipherable] Davis for [undecipherable] hire to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Cap^t G. [undecipherable] Delafontaine      $22. 18 Cap^t R. [undecipherable] [undecipherable]      [undecipherable] Cap^t Frasier Frye      10.74 Lieu [undecipherable] [undecipherable]      [undecipherable] Lieu. Davis [undecipherable]      [undecipherable] L^t J. G. [undecipherable]      [undecipherable] 10. 4. 4 Amount [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] Dollars, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] Rec^t for [undecipherable] paid to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] W[undecipherable] for December 1795      [undecipherable] Richard [undecipherable]ford      ditto      [undecipherable] Elijah Gallard      ditto      [undecipherable] John [undecipherable] [undecipherable] January 1796      30. 48 amounting to forty Eight Dollars. Thirteen Rec^ts [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] paid out of [undecipherable] remaining [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] Payments [undecipherable] [undecipherable] viz^t to John [undecipherable]      1.62½ John M^cClellen      [undecipherable] 8.½ David [undecipherable]      1.75 William Wilson      [undecipherable] Mark [undecipherable]      20. [undecipherable] David [undecipherable]      [undecipherable] [undecipherable] van [undecipherable]      1. [undecipherable] William [undecipherable]      [undecipherable] Robert [undecipherable]      [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]      [undecipherable] Josiah [undecipherable] Correl      [undecipherable] John M. Smith      10. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] More      5. 12      171. [undecipherable] Amounting to One Hundred Seventy One Dollars [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Cents [undecipherable] the [undecipherable]. The vouchers [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] have [undecipherable] paid in the above are the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] have been [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. I transmit you also an Account Current between the United States and the temporary Paymaster at West Point, by which there appears to be now in my hands a balance of Three Hundred, Ninety Two Dollars, Thirty Eight Cents. I have received from the Paymaster at New York by the hands of Cap^t Staats Morris Two Thousand, Nine Hundred and Two Dollars, Eighty four Cents for the pay & forage of the Corps at West Point for February 1796 with respect. I have the honour to be Sir, Your very humble Serv^t Nath. Freeman Lieu^t A & E Temp^y Paymaster at West Point William Simmons Esquire