[page number: 189] thing you will please to withhold this amount in your hands deducting it from their pay — Sam l^o W. S. Perin^d Sprigs Accountants Office W Point — July 1. 1799 Sir Your letter of the 6^th Instant together with your account for the months of May & June came duly to hand agreably to your request the sum of thirty dollars being the amount due to you has been transmitted to Nicholas Fish Esquire Residing from whom you will receive it upon giving him the necessary rect In future you will be pleased to forward your account of Subsistance quarterly as that is the manner in which accounts of that nature are Settled at this Office — Sam l^o W.S. Nicholas Fish Esq^r June 1. 1799 New York Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the Sum of thirty dollars which you will please to pay to Perin[d] Sprigs als^o Military Store Keeper at West Point upon his granting the necessary rect, being for his pay for the Months of May & June 1799 — Sam l^o W.S.