Lieu^t & Nanning Fischer Fort Oswego — Sir I have received your letter dated the 3^d Inst.^t — Your subsistance account having been examined & found right the amount being two hundreds & twenty one Dollars 4^ts has been paid to the order of Mess^rs Bleekers agreeably to your request. Sam^l & W. Simmons Chet.^t --- John Kilty Esq^r Supervisor Baltimore — Accountants Office July 26 ^th 1798. Sir Your letter of the 23 ^d Inst. Dcoms to hand enclosing the receipt of Lieut.^t Samuel I Dyson for two hundred twenty one Dollars 4 ^ts, which sum will be entered on the Books of this Office in the usual manner. Sam^l & W. Simmons Chet.^t --- Lieut.^t John Knight Chester Town, Maryland Accountants Office July 26 ^th 1798. Sir I received your letter of the 21 Inst.^t enclosing sundry receipts for bounties paid by you which are filed subject to an examination on the settlement of your recruiting account. I have to request that in future the Bounty receipts transmitted by you may be witnessed, especially when the parties cannot write and that each transmission be accompanied with a list of the Receipts with the amount paid to each Recruit, opposed to his name. Sam^l & W. Simmons