Certification of payments; account of Nicholas Fish
Document 1798Certification that $96.57 is due Nicholas Fish, Supervisor at New York, being the amount of his commissions for receiving and paying monies from the War Office for October 1797 through March 1798.
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Accountants Office
May 26 1798
I Certify that there is due to Nicholas Fish Supervisor of New York the sum of ninety nine Dollars & fifty seven cents being amount of his account of Commissions for receiving & paying monies from this Department from 1st October to 31 March 1795.—
Incidentals & contingent Expences for Qr 37. 4
do Qr 40 39.53
$99.57
W Simmons
Acty
The Secy of War
Accountants Office
May 26 1798
I Certify that there is due to Captain Arnold & Mitchells of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers the sum of two hundred & thirteen Dollars & 38, being for balance of pay & for his substitutes from 1 January to the 30 April 1798.
Pay 154.40
Subsist 59.22
Total 213.62
W Simmons
Acty
The Secy of War
Accountants Office
May 26 1798
I Certify that there is due to John McCurdy late of [undecipherable] in the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers the sum of four dollars fifty Cents being for his pay from 1st the time he was last paid to by Major Burbeck — other 20 May 79the the day of his discharge —
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W Simmons
[undecipherable]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification that $96.57 is due Nicholas Fish, Supervisor at New York, being the amount of his commissions for receiving and paying monies from the War Office for October 1797 through March 1798.
Date
05/26/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1798052621255
Page start
169
Note
Account of Nicholas Fish.
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Nicholas Fish
Supervisor at New York
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
New York
Accountants Office
Notable items
pay
commissions for receiving and paying monies

