Ensign Henry Bowyer                                    Accountants O[ffice]      Staunton                                                       July 8^th 1797          Virginia              Sir                      I received your letter of the 25^th Ulto: enclosing an account of your Pay from 1^st January to 30^th June 1797 and Subsistence from 1^st November 179[6] to 30^th June 1797 both amounting to one hundred and nine Dollars & fifty six cents which sum agreeably [to] your request is transmitted to Edward Carrington Supervisor at Richmond from whom you will receive [the] same on giving him duplicate receipts.                      I am &c.                                                  W^m Simmons                                                        Acct^t