[325] M^r Alexis Delaruity                            Accountants Office Assistant Engineer                                Jan^y 17^th 1797 Baltimore Sir I received your letter of the 8^th Instant enclosing your Account of Pay from the 1^st July to the 31^st December 1796 inclusive amounting to three hundred and sixty eight Dollars which sum you will receive from John Kelty Esq^r Supervisor at Baltimore and for which you will please to sign duplicate Receipts. I am &c W. Simmons Acct John Kelty Esq^r                                    Accountants Office Supervisor                                             January 17^th 1797 Baltimore Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of three hundred and sixty eight Dollars which you will please to pay to Alexis Delaruity Assistant Engineer for the Fortifications near Baltimore being for his Compensation from the 1^st July to the 31^st December 1796 inclusive and take his duplicate receipts for the same. I am &c W^m Simmons Acct George Fleming Esq^r                            Accountants Office West Point                                            January 18^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the [undecipherable]^th Instant enclosing the Receipt Rolls for the Months of October and November and the Muster & Pay Roll for the month of December 1796 of the Detachment of the 1^st Regiment for the service of the Ordnance Department stationed at