[Free [undecipherable]] [Will^m Simmons Esq^r Accountant War Office Philadelphia] [BOSTON] [Circular / [undecipherable] letters cited / received Aug [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / Philadelphia / [undecipherable]] Supervisors Office, Boston August 9^th 1797. Sir Here did enclosed John Bryants order as D.C.M. Storis, dated the 2^d instant in favor of Zebina Stebbins, and by him endorsed, made payable to Booth & Pratt, whose Clerk, Francois Booth, has signed the same — He has also signed Duplicate receipts according to the form, prescribed one of which is now enclosed dated the 7^th instant for the same sum as the order, viz $ 134 ⁷⁵/100 Dollars, and agreeably to your letter of the 23^d ult^o There was received at this Office on the 13^th [undecipherable] last in M^r Merediths letter of the 8^th M^r [undecipherable] Simpsons draft of that date on the Branch bank here for 500 Dollars drawn on warrant N° 2196— I have not received any directions to whom it is to be paid— M^r George [undecipherable: probable reading Claghorne], Contractor of the Frigate here, has enquired of I had any directions lately to pay money to him, which I told him I had not.— Capt James Sover has never yet called for the 223 ²⁶/100 dollars ordered in December last to be paid him— I am with respect, Sir your obed Serv Jon W Jackson Will^m Simmons Esq^r, Accountant War-Office,