Capt. Edwards Miller Middletown Connect. Accountants Offi[ce] April [undecipherable] 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 th[e] Office for pay of yourself, and Detachment from 1 January [to] March 98 inclusive, and also a further sum [undecipherable] 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 R[undecipherable] W[undecipherable] M^r Forman Cheesman Superintendent of the Navy Yard, New York— Sir Accountants O[ffice] April 2[undecipherable] I received your account for salary as Superintendant of the Navy Yard at New York, under a blank amounting to one hundreds dollars, which sum you will receive from Nicholas Fish supervisor at New York, on giving him your receipts therefor— Sam R[undecipherable] W[undecipherable] H. Simm[undecipherable] Au[undecipherable] Nicholas Fish Esq[undecipherable] Supervisor N.Y. Sir Accountants Offi[ce] April 2[undecipherable] The Treasurer of the United States will remit [a] sum of One hundred dollars, which be pleased to pay to m^r Forman [undecipherable] Superintendent of the Navy Yard at New York, it being for his salary for [undecipherable] to 31 March 93 — and take his duplicate receipts for the same— Ja[undecipherable]