Dollars which has been examined and will be passed to your Credit on the Books of this Office James H^t W^m Simmons Acct Frederick Speig Accountants Office West Point Oct^r 10^th 1796 Sir I rec^d your letter of the 5^th Inst enclosing your account for Compensation as assistant Store-keeper at West Point, for the months of July, August & Sept^r 1796, amounting to Ninety Dollars, which sum you will receive from Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor New york, on giving him duplicate receipts for the same James H^t W^m Simmons Acct Nicholas Fish Accountants Office Supervisor Oct^r 10^th 1796 New York Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the Sum of Ninety Dollars, which you will please to pay to Frederick Speig at West Point, being for his Salary as Assistant Store-keeper for the Months of July, August & September 1796, and take his duplicate receipts for the same James H^t W^m Simmons Acct Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Accountants Office Oct^r 10^th 1796 Sir In addition to M^r Cranch's Account for Feb^y 1030 ³⁰/₁₀₀ for cleaning & repairing Arms at West Point, which you returned to this Office inclosed in your Letter of 5^th Sept^r, certifying that the same was charged agreeable to Contract. — He has now rendered another Account of the same kind with the same prices affixed to the charges amounting to $^k 655 ^No/₁₀₀ — I give you this information, that as you hinted, some examination may be made into the state of the Marquets at West Point: for the repairs whereof a very considerable Sum has been already expended James H^t W^m Simmons Acct [Page 219 YNB01]