The United States [Cr.] To Louis Severe To Seven Months and Twenty Days pay as Indian Interpreter at Fort Knox for the Garrison there. Viz: December 1797 January. February. March. April May June and July Twenty Days 1798 at Twelve Dollars per Month. } [undecipherable] Dollars 92 the above act. being Ninety two Dollars I assign to John Small this 18^th January 1800 Louis Severe [present] I Certify that Louis Severe continued to do the duty of In[undecipherable] Interpreter at this Post up to the twentieth day of July. Seventeen hundred and Ninety eight, at twelve Dollars p^r. Month Given at Fort Knox 25^th July 1798 Signed Duplicates [Signature] P. Pasteur, Cap^t 1^st Regim^t. Commandant Fort Knox.