Nicholas Fish Esq^re Supervisor New York Accountants Office April — 1798 June 1^st Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of forty four Dollars & nine Cents, which you will be pleased to pay to George Fleming, Ordnance & Military Store keeper at West Point, being for pay of the detachment of Infantry in the service of the Ordnance Department for January 1798 — Sam 82 W. Simmons Acct^t — --- Cap^tn Russell Bissele Presque Isle Accountants Office April 27 1798 Sir I have received your letter of the 1 Inst^t. enclosing the receipt of Lieut Roscorantz for sixty dollars — The amount will be entered to your Debt tho' not strictly, conformable to the established rule, You will understand therefore that I wish to discourage advances of this nature, and that no payments (unless absolute necessity should require & then they must be made with a great deal of caution) shall be made without an order from this Dep^t— The letter enclosed will be forwarded as directed — Sam 282 W. Simmons Acct^t —