Accountants Office Trenton Aug 21 1798 I Certify that there is due to a Detachment of the 1^st Reg^t of Art^y & E stationed at West Point the sum of seven hundred forty seven Dollars & 49. being for the pay forage of the commissioned Officers & the pay of the non commissioned Officers & Priv[ates] for the month of July 1797 including the pay of two discharged men & retained bounty due to six Recruits which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish supervisor New York to be by him paid to [strikethrough: the] [undecipherable] Freeman Temporary Paymaster at West Point who is to be held accountable for the due application of the same — Pay of Army in 1797 — 24. Ditto 1798 647.42 671.42 Forage of Officers 32. 7 Bounties to Soldiers 44. — Dollars 747.49 W^m Simmons Acct^t [seal] The Secretary of War W^t 3170.