[499] amounting to fifty five Dollars 4¹⁰/100 which sum you will receive from Jonathan Jackson Eq^r supervisor at Boston on giving your receipts for the same — I am &c Peter Hagner P.Clk J. Rhea Esq^r Accountants Office Trenton — August 9^th 1798. Sir, In the absence of M^r Simmons I received your letter dated the 8^th on the subject of Doctor Howells application for a surgeons appointment — as the letter fully states the nature of this application, I have filed it in this Office of the Secretary of War with the recommendations of D^r Holcels already received — and no doubt the proper notice will be taken thereof — when the nominations take place — I am &c Peter Hagner Ac^t &c Nicholas Fish Esq^r Accountants Office New York August 9^th 1798. Sir, In the absence of the accountant I have to inform you that the Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of eighty Dollars 4¹⁰/100 which you will be pleased to pay to Lieu^t Horatio [undecipherable: McClayton?] at Elizabeth town taking the necessary receipts for the same being for his hay & subsistence for June & July [undecipherable] I am &c P. Hagner