Jonathan Jackson Esq^r. Sup^t. Boston Accountants Office Dec^r 26. 1796 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Two hundred twenty three dollars &²⁰/₁₀₀, which sum you will please to pay to M^r James Sever, at Kingston, Massachusetts, being for his Pay & Subsistence, as Capt of the Frigate building at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from 1^st May to 30^th June 1796, & take his duplicate receipts therefor. You will be pleased on the rec^t. hereof to forward the enclosed to him. I am &c. W^m Simmons. Acct.