John Hills Esq.^r Accountants Office Baltimore June 12 1799 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Eighty Dollars which you will please to pay to James [undecipherable] Esper. 1 Col. d.h.s being for his pay for the months of April + May 1799 for which sum you will take the [undecipherable] receipt — [undecipherable] M. Simmons [undecipherable] Cap.^t Russell [undecipherable] June 12 1799 [undecipherable] Sir I have received your letter of the [undecipherable] instant, with the enclosures, One pay list was examined & found correct; amounting to one hundred nine dollars & [undecipherable] which sum you will receive from John [undecipherable] supervisor [undecipherable] Bond & for which you will be pleased to give him your duplicate receipt holding yourself accountable for the sum expressed therein — If you can ascertain that there has been any expenses incurred for advertising or in pursuing [undecipherable] at the time of the desertion, you will please to deduct it from his pay — From &c M.Simmons Clark John Beers Esq.^r June 12 1799 Supervisor [undecipherable] Connecticut Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of One hundred [undecipherable] Dollars & [undecipherable] being for the pay of [undecipherable] under the command of Cap.^t [undecipherable] [undecipherable]