Accountants Office May 16. 1799 I certify that there is due to a Detachment of Recruits stationed at Charlottesville, under the commands of Meriwether Lewis, Lieut^t in the 1^st Reg^t of Infantry, being the pay of himself, from 1 January 1799 & for pay of the non commissioned Officers & Privates of said Detachment, from the dates of their Inlistment to 30 April 1799 inclusive, which sum is to be transmitted to Edward Carrington Supervisor at Richmond Virginia to be by him paid to the said Lieut^t [underline: Lewis], who is to be held accountable for the due application thereof — D^r 1403. 56. W. Simmons Acct. [undecipherable] The Sec^y of War W^r 4068.