Accountants Office February 22^nd 1798 I Certify that there is due to Lieut.^t Ferdinand L. Claiborne and the recruits under his command stationed at Richmond Barracks the sum of four hundred ninety seven Dollars & thirty four cents being for [strikethrough: his] their pay including that of Ensign Samuel Crutchfield for December 97 & January 98 which sum is to be transmitted to Edward Carrington Supervisor at Richmond to be by him paid to the said Lieut.^t Claiborne who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same — Pay of the Army for 97 232.46 ditto 98 264.88 D.^s 497.34 W. Simmons Acct.^t The Sec.^y of War