War Department 18^th May 1799 Sir, Mr James Wilson a Cadet in the 1^st Regi-ment of Artillerists and Engineers, having been ordered by Major Lewis Tourance, to convey parti-cular dispatches, from Rhode Islands, to the Se-cretary of War, is to be allowed his reasonable expenses, in coming from, and returning to [strikethrough: New Port Rhode Island] I am Sir your obedient servant James W Henry William Simmons Esq. Accountant War Dptmt. [Address panel: War Department — William Simmons Esq. — Accountant of the War Dept.] [Docket notation, upper right of wrapper, partially illegible: Acknowledg[es] the [undecipherable] expenses [undecipherable] James Wilson a Cadet [undecipherable] going from [undecipherable] dispatches [undecipherable]]