from the Treasurer of the United States to you of three hundred and thirty four dollars and 80— to be by you paid to Capt — Saint Nicholson of the Frigatte building at Boston being for his pay and Subsistence from 1^st April to 30 June 1796 which Sum You will accordingly pay him taking his duplicate Receipts, one of which you will please to forward to this Office. As you may be unacquainted from your late appointment of the Compensation allowed to Supervisors for transacting business of this Nation for the War departments. I enclose you the Copy of a Circular Letter, dated 18 June 1794 to Supervisors on this Subject for your Information. Your account for Compensation, agreeably to this Letter, is to be forwarded once in each quarter to this Office, when it will receive an examination and the amount remitted to You — I am respectfully &c Peter Hagner p^r C^he Accountants Office Capt^t Edw^d Miller July 20. 1796 — Middletown Connecticut — Sir— The foregoing is Copy of My Letter to you of the 6^th Inst which has never been acknowledged to have been rec^d by you. The reason I conceive is that it was forwarded to two points, after you left there — I have now to acknowledge the Rect of your Letter of the 17 Inst enclosing the said Notes therein mentioned which after examination will be passed to your Credit — Peter Hagner p^r C^he