Lieut. Meriwether Lewis Accountants Office Staunton Virg. June 18. 1799 Sir, I have receive your letter of the 31 Ult with its enclosures — You should have made out your Pay Bills for the month of June only as the pay up to the 1^st of that month has already been forwarded: however I have [undecipherable] a Pay Bill to be made for May amounting to One Hundred & Eighty eight Dollars, as will appear by the Inclosed [undecipherable: Abstract?] Bill for your government in making the [undecipherable], where from you will receive your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [indorsed?] on your [undecipherable] from your [duplicate?] receipt [undecipherable] yourself [undecipherable] — The receipt for pay of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] will be [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — Your [note?] to [Mullins?] has been [undecipherable] & [Davies?] receipt forwarded to you [undecipherable] of the 22^d March last— agreeably to your request I have [undecipherable] you [blank?] receipt & [undecipherable] rolls— From &^c W.S. John [H?] Doster Esq^r June 19. 1799 [Deputy?] Providence R.I. Sir, The treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of [undecipherable] Dollars & [undecipherable] to be paid to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] his account for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Infantry [undecipherable] Company of [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] [Providence?], between 1 July 1797 & 11 June [undecipherable] [undecipherable]— [for?] which you will please to take the [undecipherable] receipts accordingly— from &^c W.S.