[Accountants Office May 13, 1799] I Certify that there is due to the troops stationed at West Point under the command of Capt George Ingersoll the sum of thirteen hundred forty three Dollars & twenty cents, being for pay & forage of the commissioned Officers & [pay of the] non commissioned Officers & Privates for the month of April 1799 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Supervisor at New York to be by him paid to Nehemiah Braman Temporary Pay master at West Point who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof — [left margin, rotated: see the opposite side] [left margin, rotated: cancelled] Pay of the Army 1317. 20 Forage of Officers 18. — Hospital Department 8. — Dollars 1343. 20 P. Hagner Pr. Clk. The Secretary of War ( May 13 1799 I Certify that there is due to James Caldwell the sum of One hundred & twenty five Dollars being for the rent of his store at Albany from 1 February to 1 May 1799, wherein Public Property is deposited — which sum is payable to Montgomery & Newbold per order of Michael G. Houdin military Store keeper, Dol: 125. — P. Wagner Pr. Clk. The Sec'y of War 4037