Capt^s Edwards Miller Middletown Connect^t Sir I received your letter of the [undecipherable] enclosing three receipts for bounties paid by you which w[undecipherable] transmitted before will be placed under examination an[d the] result communicated to you in due course — You will e'er this reaches you h[ave] a remittance thro' the hands of m^r Samuel Lewis Clerk in this Office for pay of yourself, and Detachment from 1 January [to] March 98 inclusive, and also a further sum of One hundre[d] Dollars for the purpose of defraying the expences of marching Recruits, for which sums you will be pleased to transmit him necessary receipts holding yourself accountable — Sam^l [undecipherable]