Nicholas Fish Esq^r New York Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of eighty Dollars & 750, to be paid to L^t Horatio R Clayton of this Corps of A & E being for his pay & subsistence for June & July 1798 for which sum you will take his receipts as usual. Sam^l &^o Peter Hagner M C &^o Accountants Office August 13^th 1798 Lieut^t Horatio R Dayton Elizabeth Town New Jersey Sir You will receive from Nicholas Fish supervisor at New York the sum of eighty Dollars & seventy four Cents for your pay & subsistence for June & July 1798 for which sum you will grant the necessary receipts — Sam^l &^o Peter Hagner C &^o Accountants Office August 13^th 1798 Mess^rs Cochran & Thursby Philadelphia Sir I return you agreeably to your request the Bills you enclosed to me under date of the 17^th for acceptance — I have noted on them the day they were presented, which is all the acceptance we are accustomed to give them, until the time expires when payment will be made at this Office — This measure is taken to prevent their being kept in Bank — Sam^l &^o W Simmons Accountants Office Trenton 13^th Aug^t 1798