[467] Lieut & Manning S Fischer Fort Oswego — Accountants Office July 26^th 1798 Sir I have received your letter dated the 3^d Inst — Your subsistence account having been examined & found right the amount being two hundreds & twenty one Dollars 4/[undecipherable] has been paid to the order of Mess^rs Bleckers agreeably to your request. Sam^l W. Simmons Acct^r John Kilty Esq^r Supervisor Baltimore — Accountants Office July 26^th 1798 Sir Your letter of the 23^d Inst Comes to hand enclosing the receipt of Lieut & Samuel J Dyson for two hundred twenty one Dollars 4/[undecipherable], which sum will be entered on the Books of this Office in the usual manner — Sam^l W. Simmons Acct^r Lieut John Knights Chester Town, Maryland Accountants Office July 26^th 1798. Sir I received your letter of the 21 Inst. 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, opposite to his name — Sam^l W. Simmons