Accountants Office June 6^th 1796 I Certify that there is due to Capt James Smedley the Sum of one Hundred, Eighty five Dollars and fifty Cents for his pay Subsistance and Forage from 1^st March to 31^st May 1796 — 6D^rs 185 50 The Secretary of War Accountants Office May 21^st 1796 I Certify that there is due to James Monroe plenipotentiary from the United States to the Republic of France the Sum of four hundred Sixty six Dollars and forty one Cents in remittance in lieu thereof paid by him to Bastian Alejandre Diaz as payment for Directory Books and Mathematical Instruments purchased by order of the Secretary for the Department of Wars who directs that the same be paid out of the sums appropriated for the Contingencies for the Department of Wars — which Sum is payable to James Monroe pfovice of Virg^a James Monroe — William Simmons 6D^rs 266 85 The Secretary of War — Accountants Office May 28^th 1796 I Certify that there is due to a Detachment of the field Artillery in the service of the Ordnance Department at West point — the Sum of Seventy three Dollars for their pay for the months of April 1796 which from a transmittee to Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor of New York and by him to George Manning as West point who is to be accountable — W^m Simmons 6D^rs 73 The Secretary of War —