Nicholas Fish Esq^r Accountants Office Supervisor August 12^th 1796 New York Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Two thousand three hundred seventy four Dollars and Eighty three Cents being for the pay and forage of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers stationed at West Point for the month of June 1796, which you will please to pay to L^t Nehemiah Freeman, Temp.^y Pay Master and take his Receipts to be accountable for the due application of the same. I am &c W^m Simmons Ac^t