[Left margin: Received 11 Decr. 1799] Exchange for 2750 $ Knoxville the 5^th November 1799 Sir After ten days sight of this my first Bill of Exchange, second of like tenor and date unpaid pay James Cowan or order, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars it being for value received of him in Specie and is to be appropriated to the Quarter Masters Department, for paying artificers &c, for which sum I hold myself accountable as per advice of the same. — The honorable I am Sir James Mc Henry Your Hum: Servant Secretary of War David Henley Philadelphia Agt War Received Decemr. 11. 1799 of William Simmons acct [undecipherable] No 4680 for two thousand seven hundred and fifty Dollars, in full of the within Bill — D[ec] 12. 1799 James [undecipherable]