[128] Capt Alex^r Thompson Niagara & Brook Sir Accountants Office July 1^st 1797 I have to acknowledge the rect of your letter of the [undecipherable] Ulto enclosing muster & Pay lists of the Troops at the Niagara under the command of May: [undecipherable] & to transmit for the month of May 179[undecipherable] upon an examination of which the following proves to be the result— Amount of Pay Bill & [undecipherable] Statement ........Dlrs 436.9[undecipherable] Also pay & forage of [undecipherable] Mutt: & Officer 3 [undecipherable]— & this sum [undecipherable] calculated on [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] also— & ... ... ... ... ... ... Harm Ratt &do — & ... ... ... ... ... For [undecipherable] Humphrey for [undecipherable] 2 & ... ... ... ... ... Henry Muller Priv: 3 36.[undecipherable] Direct your own pay to be settled in personal account ............... 40 — 279.6 At this sum miscalculated on pay of Lieut Humphrey for [undecipherable] Infantry ........... —.4 & this & from pay of Samuel [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for— [undecipherable] by Direction ........... — 2.9 & this & on pay of Julius [undecipherable] & ... & .32 63.71 [Total] 343.72 Leaving a balance of [undecipherable] hundred & [undecipherable] Dollars & [undecipherable] Which from you will receive from Samuel Issues [undecipherable]— granting the necessary rect to be accountable for the [undecipherable] apprehending thereof The pay of Lieut [undecipherable] & John [undecipherable] is made up from the way they were appointed as they [undecipherable] by direction whatever sum was due thereon to that [undecipherable] should any expence have arisen on [undecipherable] or apprehending [undecipherable]