Lieut Peter Shoemaker Accountants Office Fredericktown Maryland Trenton 20 Aug^t [undecipherable] Sir I have received your letter dated [undecipherable] Inst & enclosing a receipt of Ensign Nelson for seventy five Dol[undecipherable: lars] being three months pay in advance which sum will be enter'd to your credit on the Books of this Office — The receipts for bou[undecipherable: nties] paid by you will be filed here subject to future examination [undecipherable] receipts for Bounties paid by Ensign Nelson are filed in this Off[undecipherable: ice] I am Y^r W. Simmons Acct. Lieut Nathaniel Leonard Accountants Office 2 Reg[undecipherable] [undecipherable] E Windsor Vermont Trenton August 20^th 179[undecipherable] Sir I have received your letter dated 11 Inst & enclos[undecipherable: ing] receipts for bounties paid which shall be filed in this Office subject to future examination — In future you are requested to forward with the receipts a list containing the names of the persons to whom you make payments the sums & the dates — I am &c W. Simmons Acct.