[Accountants Office 343] Jan 12 1797 I certify that there is due to Col. [undecipherable] Pratt Lieutenant [undecipherable] Troops Stamps and the men under his command of 5^th [undecipherable] the sum of [undecipherable] hundred [undecipherable] more dollars being for their rations for the month of December 1796 which sum is to be paid to John [undecipherable] age Subsistence [undecipherable] [undecipherable] N^o 299 In Lee of this W^m Simmons Acct Accountants Office Jan 12^th 1797 I certify that there is due to the Estate of Ensign Syphel [?] The sum of Two hundred and [undecipherable] Dollars being the balance of his Account [?] Pay from the 18^th of July 1790 to the 13^th Sept 1791 the day of his death which sum is payable to John Mel [undecipherable] Age Albert [?] to W^m [undecipherable] Administrator on the Estate of Syphel &c N^o 546 In lee of this W^m Simmons Acct Accountants Office Jan 14^th 1797 I certify that Samuel Hodgdon Superintendent of Stores has exhibited to this Office [undecipherable] accounts for payments made by him between the 1^st July 1796 and 31^st Dec following which I have examined & find amount to two thousand two hundred [undecipherable] nine Dollars & [undecipherable] including charges for the rent of his own Store and for [undecipherable] payments made by him for disbursements not properly within the Contingencies of the War Department some of which appear were [undecipherable] connected with the Accounts of other Departments & should [undecipherable]