tho' you will please to withhold this amount in your hands deducting it from their pay — Sam^ll. W.S. Peter S. Sptigs 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 Paymaster from whom you will receive it upon giving him the necessary rect. In future you will be pleased to forward your account of Returns quarterly as that is the manner in which accounts of that nature are Settle at this Office — Sam^ll. 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 Peter S Sptigs alt. Military Store keeper at West Point upon his granting the necessary rec't, being for his pay for the months of May & June 1799 — Sam^ll. W.S.