[Page 184] Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor New York Accountants January 29 Sir The Treasurer of the United will remit you Seventeen hundred & Ninety four Dollars wh you will be pleased to pay to Lieut^t Nehemiah Freeman P— Pay Master West Point taking the necessary receipts holding able for the due application of the same being for pay Subsistence of the commissioned Officers, the pay of the non commissioned Off Privates of a Detachment of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers at Point up to 31^st December 97 inclusive & for Balance of Boun Sundry Recruits in the said Detachment — Sam^l 8^c [undecipherable] Capt^t Alex^r Gibson Staunton, Virg^a Accountants Off[ice] January 30^th Sir The Vouchers contained in your the 15 Inst^t have undergone the necessary examination & the [undecipherable] is the result: the amount receipted on the receipt holts for pay of [undecipherable] & Recruits from 1^st Nov^r 96 to 30 Sept 97 inclusive will be passed & [undecipherable] redited on the Books of this Office being One Thousand ninety Six Dol advances made by you to Pillsberger & Mugg must be considered at risk. — The receipts for Bounties paid by you will be held subj future examination for a settlement of your recruiting accounts, — [undecipherable] from Edwin Carrington by Johnston [undecipherable] receive two hundred Seventy Six Dollars & thirty five Cents, being of pay roll for pay of yourself & recruits from 1^st October to 31^st 1797 including thirty [undecipherable] short calculated on pay of Rever[end] [undecipherable] on your giving him the necessary receipts holding yours of account Sam^l 8^c W S[undecipherable] C A[undecipherable]