Samuel Meredith Es^qr Accountants Office^ce Treasur^r of the U States October 31. 1797 Sir Inclosed is a receipt of John Habersham Collector of the customs for Savannah amounting, to One hundred dollars and &c also a warrant for that sum, being for the Incidental & Contingent expences of the War Department, to which warrant the receipt is to be annexed, agreeably to a request from the Compt-roller of the Treasury. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^e Jonathan Jackson Es^q D.W. Accountants Office Super^r Boston October 31. 1797 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One hundred, twenty one dollars &c^ts. which you will be pleased to pay to John Bryant Deputy Commissary Military Stores at Springfield being for his compensation from 1 July to the 30^th Sep^t ult^o. including his contingent account for the same time — you will take from him the necessary receipts, one of which you will send on as usual to this Office. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct^e