[Forwarded to [undecipherable] 22 June 1798] Expenditure of the contingent fund of 500 Doll[a]rs to be expended as therein directed by the Secretary of War. The receipt of which is acknowledged in my letter to the Secretary of War. Paid at the request of Indian Commissioners appointed to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] ascertained and marked out [undecipherable] extraordinary [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the whole to 188 [undecipherable] and what was used and [undecipherable] in the running of the [undecipherable] of the Lower towns of [undecipherable]. And part of M^r William Hill I do certify that [undecipherable] Matthias [undecipherable] in every measure and for purposes approved of by him as the amount of the former [undecipherable] was four hundred eighty eight [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as above [undecipherable]