Edward Carrington Esq^r.                          Accountants Offi[ce]     Supervisor                                  August 12 179[1]         Richmond             Virginia                 Sir                     The Treasurer of the United [States] will remit you the sum of Three hundred sixty [three] Dollars & Fifty seven cents, which you will please [pay] Captain Alexander Gibson, at Staunton, being [for the] pay of himself and the men under his comman[d to] the 31 Ultimo and take his receipts for the due app[lication] thereof.                                         I am &c.                                             W^m. Simmon[s]                                                 Acc[ountant]