[209] Accountants Office August 2^d 1798 I Certify that there is due to Richard J Blackbu[rn] Captain in the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers the sum of six Dollars & sixty seven Cents being for balance of his account Current embracing Bounties to Soldiers expences of recruiting Incidental & Contingent expences & monies remaining in his hands from the pay[?] of himself & the Detachment under his command at Fort Norfolk between 1 February '97 & the 31 May '98 which sum is payable to Lieutenant Ferdinand L Claiborne who is to be held account- able to pay the same to the said Cap^tn Blackburn — Incid^t & Cont^t expences W. Simmons W.D. D^s 6.67. Acct.^t The Secretary of War —