Cap^t Edwards Miller Middletown Connect. Accountants' Off[ice] April [date cut off] Sir I received your letter of the [cut off] enclosing three receipts for bounties paid by you which w[cut off] transmitted before will be placed under examination an[d the cut off] result communicated to you in due course.— You will e'er this reaches you h[ave cut off] a remittance thro' the hands of M^r Samuel Lewis Clerk in th[e cut off] Office for pay of yourself, and Detachment from 1 January [to cut off] March 98 inclusive, and also a further sum of One hundre[d cut off] Dollars for the purpose of defraying the expences of marching Recruits, for which sums you will be pleased to transmit him [the cut off] necessary receipts holding yourself accountable— Sam [signature cut off] M^r Forman Cheesman Superintendent of the Navy Yard, New York— Sir Accountants' O[ffice cut off] April 2[cut off] I received your account for salary [as cut off] Superintendant of the Navy Yard at New York, under a blank [cut off] amounting to one hundred dollars, which sum you will receive from Nicholas Fish supervisor at New York, on giving him [y]our receipts therefore— Sam [signature cut off] H[undecipherable] Au[ndecipherable] Nicholas Fish Es^q. Supervisor N.Y. Sir Accountants' Off[ice cut off] April 2[cut off] The Treasurer of the United States will remit y[ou cut off] sum of One hundred dollars, which be pleased to pay to M^r Forman [cut off] Superintendent of the Navy Yard at New York, it being for his salary for [cut off] to 31 March 98— and take his duplicate receipts for the same— Sam[cut off]