Lieut. Nanning Viscker Accountants Office Albany, State N.Y. August 31^st 1797 Sir In compliance with the request in your letters of the 15^th Ultimo & 24^th Instant you will receive from Samuel Lewis Clerk in the War Office the amount due yourself and the other Officers stationed at Niagara for subsistence up to 31^st July 1797 being four hundred twenty four Dollars & thirty six cents for which you will transmit him your duplicate receipts holding yourself accountable for the due application of the same which you are to do in the following manner viz. To Cap^t James Bruff. - - 143. 32⁰ " Lieut^t Nanning J. Viscker - - 130. 89 Con^d Over D^r 274. 21 Amount brought over D^r To Lieut^t John McClallen - Surgeons Mate John P. Coffin, including 12^½ D^r short calculated on Rations in a settlement made with him June 19. 1797. making the above mentioned sum of - - D^r [undecipherable] The difference between this amount and that of the [undecipherable] transmitted by you arises from the above mentioned sh[undecipherable] calculations in M^r Coffin's former account of Subsiste[nce] a short charge of one half cent now made by him & th[e dif-] ferent Officers in their respective accounts from the [undecipherable] they were last settled with for Subsistence to the 31 May [undecipherable] that is to say 25½ in lieu of 25 Cents p[undecipherable] Ration I am &c. Wm Simmons Acc^t