George Fleming Esq^ro West Point Accountants Office June 1^st 179 8 Sir You will receive from Nicholas Fish supervisor New York the sum of forty four Dollars & nine Cents for which you will be pleased to give him the necessary recept being for pay of the detachment of Infantry in the service of the Ordnance Department for January 1798 — Sam^l W Lim Ch Captⁿ Thomas Truxton Commanding the Frigate Constitution Baltimore Accountants Office May 31^st 179 8 Sir By the instructions issued by the M of War to Lieut^t Triplett I perceive he was to put himself under orders, that event two remittances have been made to him amounting to D^o 240.— for the purpose of Recruiting Marines for the Frigate Constitution. On the 3^rd Inst. I received a letter from him and a muster & pay & receipt rolls the latter amounting to forty dollars & twenty five cents requesting the same to be passed to his credit for pay of Marines he alledges to have been enlisted by him & sent the said Frigate — for want of necessary information as respects the extent of your authority to him to enlist muster & pay men of that description his request has not yet been complied with — I have to request that you will be pleased to transmit me the necessary information on the subject as early as possible — Sam I a W^m Simmons Acct^t