and forty cents, out of which you will be pleased to pay to Cap^t Frederick Frye Three hundred ninety dollars ⁶²/100 and the residue to Lieut^t David Hale being forty eight dollars &³⁸/100 and for which sums you will please to obtain their respective receipts holding them accountable. the former being for pay, subsistence & forage of Cap^t Frederick Frye & Surgeon mate Osboine & the pay of the noncommissioned Officers and privals of the detachment at Governors Island for October 1797, and the latter for the pay of Lieut^t Hale and recruits for the same period. Sam^yc. W^m Simmons &c Cap^t Frederick Frye Accountants Office n^r New York- November 4^th 1797 Sir I received your letter of the 1 Instant enclosing the receipt roll for September & the muster and pay rolls for October 1797 of the detachment under your command— the amount of the former will be passed to your credit on the books of this Office being Three hundred, sixty two dollars &⁶⁰/100;— you will receive the amount of the latter being Three hundred ninety dollars &⁶²/100 from Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor on giving him the necessary receipts holding yourself accountable as usual. Measures will be taken with respect to a further remittance for the recruiting service so soon as the Secretary of War returns to Town which will be in the course of a few days.—