[218] Accountants Office August 5 1798 I Certify that there is due to a Detachment of Recruits stationed at New Brunswick under the command of Ensign William R. Boote the sum of seventy three Dollars & fifty five Cents, being for his [undecipherable] pay for July 1798 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fisk super[undecipherable] at New York to be, by him paid to the said Ensign Boote, who is to be h[undecipherable] accountable for the due application of the same — [underline: Pay of the Army for 98 .... D^rs C^ts 73.55] Peter Hagner Pr Clk The Sec^y of War