[file notation: Si 4/] Supervisors Offic Di: S. Carolina Charlotte 14. Octo: 1797 I am now to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 25. September and agreeable to your instructions have paid Capt. Michael Kalteisen [undecipherable] hundred and Eighty one Dollars and twenty nine Cents being for the pay of himself and the Detachment under his Command (including the forage of Frederick Del[undecipherable: probable reading] [undecipherable] Matross stationed at Fort Johnson) for the months of July and August 1797. and herewith enclose you his Receipt therefor. I am Sir Very Respectfully Your most Ob't. Ser't. Dan. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Carolina W^m Simmons Esq^r. Accountant War Department [Address panel: To William [undecipherable] Esq. / Accountant / War Department / Philadelphia] [Endorsement, upper center: Oct 17] [Endorsement, right margin: Oct 14] [Endorsement, lower right: Reed the [undecipherable] / War Dep[artment] / [undecipherable] / Oct[ober] [undecipherable]]