[Accountants Office] Edward Carrington Esq^r Accountants Office Supervisor June 13^th 1797 Richmond ✓ Virginia Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of three hundred & thirty dollars & twenty Cents, which sum you will be pleased to pay to Capt. Richard S Blackburn commanding at Fort Norfolk, and take his duplicate receipts holding [strikethrough: him] accountable for the due application of the same being for the Pay of himself and the detachment under his command for the Month of May 1797, for the Pay of Joseph Kelly private from 1^st to 30^th November 1795 and for balance of bounty due to John Scott private in the said Detachment. I am Sir &c. Wm Simmons Acc^t. --- Capt. Richard S Blackburn Accountants Office Fort Norfolk June 13. 1797 near Norfolk Virginia Sir I recieved your letter of the 6^th Instant enclosing the Muster & Pay Roll of the detachment under your command for May 1797, you will receive [strikethrough: the] of the latter from Edward Carrington Esq^r Supervisor at Richmond, amounting to