Major J. I. U^. Richards                                    Accountants Office Niagara New York                                  August 2.^nd 1798 — Sir Your draft for ninety one Dollars & nine Cents to the order of George Forsyth & C^o I have paid this day, agreeably to your request, the same being for your subsistence for June & July 1798. In future however, it will be necessary that you furnish a regular stated subsistence account with a certificate annexed, stating that for the subsistence charged you have neither drawn Rations or money in lieu thereof — Iam &^c                                                                    W. Simmons                                                                                    Acct^t