[303] Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor New York Accountants Office April 24^th 1798 Sir I received your letter of the 18 Inst^t enclosing the receipt of Lieut Philip Rodrigues for forty Dollars, which will be passed to your credit, & your account of commissions for receiving & paying monies from this Department in the quarter ending 31 Mar last amounting to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D^r 111. 57 From which I have deducted the sum of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 . — being so much charged on payment made to George Fleming Military Store keeper at West Point for wood, the same being inadmissable at this Office, commissions being allowed only on monies sent directly from this Department the balance of ninety six dollars & fifty seven cents, due you will be transmitted on your sending forward the receipt of lieut^t Nehemiah Freeman, for payment made to him of four hundred eighty nine Dollars & seven cents, which is included in the aforementioned account Sam^l S^o W Simmons Acct^t --- John Kelly Esq^r Supervisor Baltimore Accountants Office April 24^th 1798 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One hundred & twenty Dollars which you will be pleased to pay to Lieut^t James Triplett at Baltimore, taking the necessary receipts holding him accountable, being on account of the pay of the Marines on board the Frigate Constellation Sam^l S^o W Simmons Acct^t