Accountants Office Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor New York Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the Sum of two hundred, ninety three Dollars & thirty six Cents which you will be pleased to pay as follows viz 153. 2. to Ensigⁿ William R. Boote at New Brunswick, New Jersey for pay of himself & recruits for Decem^r 97, & January 1798 96.25. to George Fleming, Ordnance & Military Store keeper, on account of Thomas Hughes's account for making Iron work for the Garrison at West Point from 1^st October to 31 December 97 44. 9. to ditto being for pay of the Detachment of Infantry on duty of the Ordnance Department at West Point for January 203.36 for which you will be pleased to obtain the necessary receipts and the parties accountable. Sam^l H. W Som^s Lieu^t & Fred^k S. Claiborne Richmond, V^a Accountants Office May 8.^th 1798 Sir I received your letter of the 12^th Inst. Pay rolls for December & January last of the Detachment under you which has undergone the necessary examination & the following is the amount of both as stated by you exclusive of fractional parts to which add short calculated on pay of Jeremiah Millington from which deduct for overcalculations on the pay of the following men viz Chatham Charles .. 21 John Corby .. 22 William Tower .. 21 John Gorman .. 22 William Haynes .. 22 which leaves an amount of four hundred ninety seven Dollars & thirty four Cents which sum you will receive from Edward Carrington