Port Tobacco May 1^st 17[98] Sir I received your letters of the 16^th 17 & 21^st Ult. — I herewith transmit you receipts for bounty paid last week amounting to twenty two dollars — please to inform me if it is custom. to pay recruits their pay before they join their Regiment. and in what manner the pay role must be made up. I am Sir Your Mo^st Ob^t Serv^t Sam^l T Dyson Lieu^t Ast^t d Engs. [Addressed to: William Simmons Esquire / Accountant for the department / of War / Philadelphia] [Docket on cover: From [undecipherable] L. Dyson / dated [undecipherable] May 1798 / Rec'd [undecipherable] May [undecipherable] / Port Tobacco] [Docket: receiv'd May 14. 1798 / No. 23]