Accountants Office February 14^th 1798 I certify that there is due to Lieu^t Caleb Rodriguez of the Corps of Artillerists & Engineers the sum of forty Dollars being for Bounties paid Simmons allowed him for Enlisting two Recruits in the service of the United States which sum is to be transmitted to Tuckels & the expences of a New York to be by him paid to the said Lieutenant Rodriguez. Bounties to 2 men 34. Expences of transmitting 6. Dollars 40. W^m Simmons, Acc^t The Sec^y of War. Accountants Office February 15^th 1798 I certify that there is due to the Estate of Samuel Smith deceased late Clerk of the Navy Yard at Valuation the sum of fifty four Dollars & ninety nine Cents, being for his salary from the 10^th August 1797 the date of his appointment to the 22^d of September following the day of his death. $ 54.99 Sam^l Smith Esq^r Navy Dept. W^m Simmons, Acc^t The Sec^y of War. ~~March 1798~~ Accountants Office December 20^th 1798 I certify that there is due to a detachment of the corps of Artillerists & Engineers stationed at Fort Niagara under the command of Major of the 1^st March dernier, the sum of four hundred nineteen Dollars & thirteen Cents, being for the pay for October 1797 of Captain James Bruff, 1 S^t & twelve months Serv^t in M^r Sullivans marching forage, and the non commissioned Officers & Privates of the said Detachment. W^m Simmons, Acc^t & Clerk. Pay of the Army in 1797. 407.13 Forage of horses 0 . 12. $ 419. 13 The Sec^y of War. March 2. 1798