[Briggs who is to be accountable for the out application thereof] [D° 361.22— Wm Simmons] [Secretary of War] Accountants Office June 3^d 1796 I Certify there is due to Augustine de Peyster two hundred thirty Seven Dollars and fifty Cents being for his Compensation as Sub Engineer to the fortifications at So Carolina from 1^st April to 6^th June 96 Inst: which Sum is to be transmitted to Paul Stevens Supervisor Charleston D° 227.50 The Secretary of War Wm Simmons Accountants Office June 3^d 1796 I Certify there is due to [undecipherable] Talbot Capt in the Navy two hundred thirty four Dollars and twenty Cents being for his Pay & Subsistence from 1^st April to 30 June 1796 Inst: the time his Services ceased, agreeably to a letter from the Secretary allowing to him [date] the 4^th Inst: which Sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor New York D° [undecipherable].33 The Secretary of War H Simmons Accountants Office July 1^st 1796 I Certify there is due to John Mel [undecipherable] and the men employed, on board the galley [undecipherable] at Block Island Fort, one hundred and four Dollars for their pay for the Months of June 1796 which Sum is payable to the said John Mel Attorney 134 D° The Secretary of War Wm Simmons