[500] Lieut.^t Horatio R. Dayton                          Accountants Office Elizabeth Town New Jersey                             August 9^th 179[8] Sir      In the absence of the accountant I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8 Inst.^t enclosing your account of Pay & subsistence for June & July 1798 accompanied w the Contractors' Certificate relative to the subsistence; the amount of the former being eighty Dollars & seventy four Cents you will receive from Nicholas Fish supervisor New York on your giving him the necessary receipts for the same. Sam. &c                          Peter Hagner                                                                    [undecipherable] Daniel Stevens Esq.^r                              Accountants Office Supervisor Charleston                                  Aug.^t 8.^th 179[8] Sir      I have to inform you in absence of the Accountant that the Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Two hundred Dollars to be paid to Capt.^r Francis Kin[undecipherable]ger of the 2 Reg.^t of A. & E. on account of the Recruiting service, which sum be pleased as usual to take the necessary receipts holding him accountable for the due application thereof Sam. &c                          P. Hagner                                                                    [undecipherable]