[Capt. Fred^k Frye [undecipherable] 25. 1797 — ans^d same date —] William Simmons Esq^r Account^t War Department Governors Island March 27^th 1797 Sir I have enclosed Receipt Rolls of my Detachment for the Months of January and February 1797, amounting to Seven hundred & thirty fix Dollars and [strikethrough: eighty five Cents about] please to pass to my Credit. I am in want of blank Muster, Pay & Receipt Rolls. If there is a law, raising the pay of Subaltern, and giving double number of Rations to commanding Officers of separate Posts, I wish you would give me an extract of it [undecipherable] as we are concerned, as I have not had an opportunity of seeing said law. I am Sir respectfully yr huml. Serv^t. Fred^k. Frye Cap^t. Comm^d. at Gov. Island Wm. Simmons Esq^r.