Pay [Moses?] Leixas or Order Value received. [signature: Gibbs & Channing] Pay [Naphtali] Phillips for — [signature: I. Leixas] Received Nov 18^th 1799 of M^r Simmons accountant Warrant N^o 4620 for four hundred Dollars in full of the within [bill] — N. Phillips $400 — --- Exchange for $400. — Newport, Nov. 7^th 1799. — At sight please pay Mess. Gibbs & Channing or order Four hundred Dollars, Value received, and place the same to account of the travelling expences which I have or may incur in the discharge of my duty in the fortifications. — as per adv^e from — Hon. James McHenry Esq^r. Your Obed. Serv^t. Secretary at War Lewis Tousard — Engineer Philadelphia. [seal]