Nicholas Fish Esq^r Accountants Office Supervisor August 9^th 1797 New York Sir The Treasurer of the United Sta remit you the sum of One hundred & ten dollars three cents which you will be pleased to pay to Lieu Andrew Marschalk at Ellis's Island, taking the ne receipts holding him accountable for the due appl of the same being for pay of the Recruits under his mand to 31 July 1797. I am & H^ra Simmons Acct Lieu^t Andrew Marschalk Accountants O Ellis's Island August 9^th 17 near New York Sir I received your letter of the 7^th enclosing the Muster & Pay Roll of the Recruits under command to the 31 July 1797, after adding forty ni short calculated on the Pay of James Plunkett a deducting Sixty dollars for your own Pay hav received it in advance, leaves the sum of On & ten dollars and fifty three cents which you will rece Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor, New York on giving duplicate receipts holding yourself accountabl the due application of the same. In future it will be necess a