Philadelphia August 6^th 1800 Sir Please to pay to Colonel Samuel Hodgdon or order for value received of him this day in Cash the Sum of Five hundred Dollars for account the expenditure of a general Court Martial now sitting [strikethrough: now sitting] in this City, as by advice in my letter of yesterday — and you will oblige your most Ob^dt Serv^t Doll^rs 500 — Campbell Smith The Hon^ble Samuel Dexter Esquire Secretary for the Department of War [Wan^t i^p N. 5185.] [Please to Pay to M^r Peter Wagner — Samuel Hodgdon Received August 11^th 1800 of M^r Peter Wagner the above of five hundred Dollars to account of the expenditure of a General Court Martial now sitting in this City, as by advice in my letter of yesterday — $500.00 [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Adjutant?]]