[Register Office [undecipherable] 17, 1798 Mr. [undecipherable] — N^o 2 June [undecipherable] —] [undecipherable], Saml 1798 [undecipherable], Navy Yard, Baltimore [101] Treasury Department Registers Office 17 May 1798 In Consequence to your Letter of the 15^th to the Auditor of the Treasury, and which has been referred to this Office I enclose a Certificate relative to the Salary of the Clerks of the Navy Yard Baltimore, to which I beg leave to refer — I am very respectfully Sir Your most ob^t Hum^d Ser^vt f the Register [signature] The Accountant of the War Department I Certify, that it appears from the Records of this Office, that Isaac Garretson Clerk in the Navy Yard at Baltimore was paid on the 30^th day of June 1797, by Samuel & Joseph Sterrett Naval Agents at Baltimore, the sum of three hundred and seventy five Dollars, being for his Salary for six Months ending the second day of June preceding: and also, that a like sum was deducted from a subsequent Account of the said Agents for disbursements made by them from 1 July to 31 December 1797 for the Salary of the Clerks of the Yard; as more proper to be Settled at the War Office — Treasury Department Registers Office 17^th May 1798 for the Register [signature]