[page 22] your duplicate receipts for the same — Sam G. Baltimore [date?] Schmeldig Esq. Accountants Office Baltimore M^d. June 1. 1799 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of forty four Dollars with which you will please to pay to Nicholas Brown Temporary Engineer at Fort McHenry taking his duplicate receipts in the same being balance of his pay & subsistence to 31 May 1799 continues his receipts from Phila^a & to Baltimore & making to his Instructions from the Secretary your — Sam G. W. Simmons Acct S^t Nicholas Fish Esq^r. June 1. 1799 New york — Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Forty two Dollars which you will please to pay to Peter A. Downey Lieut^t Hay — or Artillt^y & Eng^rs for bounty pay & premium allowing him for enlisting three recruits — Sam G. W. Simmons Acct S^t P^t Peter A. Downey June 1. 1799 West Point Sir You will receive from Nicholas Fish Supervisor — [undecipherable] goods the sum of Forty two Dollars being for bounty pay & premium allow you for enlisting 3 recruits — for which from you will please to grant your necessary receipts — In future all Officers who are employ on the Recruiting Service are to conform themselves agreeably to the late Recruiting Instructions given by the General Hamilton & sign his [undecipherable: duplicate?]