Major J.I. W^o 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 — I am &c W Simmons Acct^r