Department of War Accountants Office Sept 25. 1797 [fr] Your letter of the 23 Inst arrived in due course covering duplicate receipts for Bounty paid. your Accounts which will be filed with those already received — A further supply of Two Hundred Dollars will in a short a time be transmitted you for the Recruiting service by M^r S Lewis Clerk in the War Office — I am [fr] Your most Obed^t Serv^t [signed] S. Simmons Ensign W^m R Boote at New Brunswick [address leaf:] [Accountants Office] [undecipherable] [William R. Boote] FREE [postal seal] Ensign William R. Boote New Brunswick [undecipherable] [undecipherable notation, right margin]