Jonathan Jackson Esq Accountants Office Supervisor Boston Massachusetts August 8^th 1798 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit to you the sum of fifty five Dollars + [undecipherable] which you will please to pay to David Hale late a lieutenant in the Corps of [undecipherable] taking his receipts for the same being for his pay & subsistence from the 1 May to the 9 June 1798 the date of his resignation & Premiums due him for enlisting two recruits — Sam'l [undecipherable] P Hagner P C[undecipherable] M^r David Hale Accountants Office Portland Aug [undecipherable] 8^th 179[undecipherable] Sir I have received your letter of the 21 [undecipherable] last enclosing your account which has undergone examination & state thus — For your pay as Lieut.^t from 1 May to 9 June 98 the date of your resignation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59. For your subsistence for the above mentioned Periods being 40 Days at 2 Dol^s p day is 80 Dol^s [undecipherable] 15/4[undecipherable] [undecipherable] 12. [undecipherable] Premiums due for enlist[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Williamson [undecipherable] John Henry [undecipherable], deducted on settlement of your last Recruiting account as not mustered — on re- examination found that they were both mustered present the 21 March 1798 . . . . . . . . . . . 4. [undecipherable] 55.