Accountants Office May 24 1799 Chauger Stevens Esq^r A[undecipherable] N. New york, Sir The Secretary of War has granted his Warrant on your favor for one hundred & thirty Dollars being for the pay of Cap^tn Jeremiah Foye Lieu^t [undecipherable] Hayes Surgeon's Mate Samuel Osborn's military corps, a pay for the new commissioned Officers & Privates of his Company for March 1799 — which sum you will accordingly receive from Nicholas Fish, Supervisor at New York, to whom you will please to grant your duplicate receipt, holding yourself accountable for the due application thereof, agreeable to the within receipt acts for your government, which as soon as the signatures thereto are obtained is to be returned in order to exonerate you from the charge on the Books of this Office — this transaction is to be kept separate from your other accounts — Sam^l W. Simmonds Acct^y