[4788] Edward Carrington Eq^r Supervisor Richmond Accountants Office July 24 1798 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Fourteen hundred &sixty two Dollars & sixty no[undecipherable]ants which you will be pleased to pay to Capt Richards Black[undecipherable] at Port Norfolk taking the necessary receipts holding them account being for the pay of himself & his company including forage of Surgeons mate, William Barnwell & the pay of the Detachment of Lieu^t Claiborne to the 30 June 98 and also for retained bounties due the Recruits enlisted by the said Lieu^t Claiborne I am &^c W^m Simmons Acct^t Lieu^t to Nich^s Freeman Accountants Office Temp^y Pay master West Point July 26 1798 Sir On comparing the signature of John Day lately enlisted by Lieu^t David Slate with that of John Day enlisted by Littlefield they both appear to have been wrote by the same person, I therefore request you will be pleased to cause a descriptive list to be ta[undecipherable: taken?] of them and forward it to me accompanied by their real signatures they are both mustered in Captⁿ Littlefield's Company for June 17[undecipherable] I am &^c W^m Simmons Acct &^c