Accountants' Office February 20^th 1799. I certify that there is due to the Troops stationed at West Point under the command of Captain George Ingersoll the sum of [underline: One thousand five hundred & ninety Dollars &] [underline: seventy nine Cents] being for the pay and forage of the commissioned Officers, and for the pay of the non commissioned Officers and Privates up to the 31^st of January 1799. [retained bounty due 25 Geo^r.] which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish supervisor at New Yorke to be by him paid to Nehemiah Freeman lieutenant & Temporary Pay master at West Point who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof — W. Simmons Acct. Pay of the Army for 1798 — 47.50 Ditto — D^o — 1799 — 1380.29                             1436.79 Forage of Officers . . . . . . . . . 18.— Bounties to Soldiers . . . . . . . . . 136.—                   Dolls 1590 79 The Secretary of War — [undecipherable] 3768