dollars & 8^to being for his Salary, Subsistence and forage from 1^st March pay to the 11^th May following as admitted and allowed by the Secretary of War — 192. 28 32. 40 28. 2b [strikethrough: Dol 287. 08] 107½ W^m Simmons The Secretary of War [strikethrough: ]ec^t Accountants Office May 12^th 179[?] I Certify that there is due to the Corps of Artillarists Engineers stationed at West Point the sum of [underline: twelve Hundred and Seventy one dollars] being for the pay and forage of the Commissioned Officers and the pay of the Non Commissioned Officers and privates to the 28^th of April pay; which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor of New York, and by him paid to Nehemiah Freeman Temporary Paymaster at West Point who is to be accountable for the due applications thereof 1241 Pay 50 Forage [strikethrough: Dol 1271] in Pay W^m Simmons The Secretary of War [strikethrough: ]ec^t Accountants Office May 12^th 179[?] I Certify that there was due to Cap^t Richard S. Blackham, Lieutenants John Saunders and James Fipplett, and other Lamkin and the non Commissioned Officers and Privates