George Fleming Esq^re West Point Accountants Office June 1^st 1798 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 receit being for pay of the detachment of Infantry in the service of the Ordnance Department for January 1798 — Sam^{l A} W[undecipherable] O[undecipherable] Captⁿ Thomas Truxton Commanding the Frigate Constitution Baltimore Accountants Office May 31^st 179[8] Sir By the instructions issued by the [Secretary] of War to Lieut. 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 Constellation. On the 3^d Inst. I received a letter from him enclosing muster & pay & recept 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 this description his request has not yet been complied with — I have therefore that you will be pleased to transmit me the necessary information on the subject as early as possible — Sam^l [undecipherable] W^m Simmons [undecipherable]