[220] Nath. Fish Esq. Accountants Office Supervisor New York August 9. 1799 Sir I received your letter dated the 8 Instant enclosing four receipts amounting to five hundred Seventy four Dollars and ninety four Cents, which will be entered on the Books of this Office Sam [undecipherable] W.S. R. John Livingston [undecipherable] August 10. 1799 [undecipherable] New York Post Sir I have received your letter of the [undecipherable] requesting the Transmission of your Pay for June & July in reply I have to inform you that the Pay Master here has arrived in this City & has names on the order of his Office, to whom all applications of his money as to be transmitted, will however be more proper to secure personal settlements, that you should be included on the muster & Pay rolls of this Company Sam [undecipherable] W.S. Theobald Evans Esq. August [undecipherable]. 1799 New York P[undecipherable] Sir The Secretary of War has given a Warrant for Five thousand Dollars in favor of Samuel Meredith Treasurer of the United States to be expended by him in the [undecipherable] Bank of [undecipherable] Rhode Island, subject to your orders, to be disbursed by you on account of the Fortifications existing in the harbor of New York, for this sum you will be held accountable to [undecipherable] and will transmit your receipts