[2] [undecipherable: probable reading "Anst"] letter Philip Davis placed in the hands of John Staley, Supervisor at Baltimore to be paid to the said Ensign Mayhle accordingly — Sam'y W Simmons Rec'r Mr George Davis Accountants Office [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] May 22^d 1799 New York Sir I have received your letter dated 20^th [undecipherable] inclosing your account for pay Subsistence & forage which has been examined and after correcting the errors which were occasioned by calculating your pay & forage for the broken months of 30 days instead of 31, also to the month and the rations at 17 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the whole time they were at 17¾ [undecipherable] to 3^d [undecipherable] and after that period amounted to 16 [undecipherable] 1 [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] of a [undecipherable], which makes the amount due only One Hundred Seventy four Dollars & [undecipherable] which sum you will receive from Nicholas Fish Supervisor at New York on your giving him the necessary receipts — Sam'y W Simmons Rec'r Nicholas Fish Esq^r May the 22^d 1799 New York Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One Hundred Seventy four Dollars & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] being for pay Subsistence & forage of George Davis Temporary Surgeon Mate in the Army of the United States from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to 30 May 99 inclusive, while attending the troops stationed at West [undecipherable], which sum you will please to pay to him, taking the necessary receipt — Sam'y W Simmons Rec'r