Accountants Office March 3^d 1801 I certify that there is due to John Brown & James Scott Privates in Cap^t Eddin's Co 2^d Reg^t of Inf the sum of Forty [underline: dollars] being for their pay from 1 January to 30 April 1800 the same having been placed in the hands of bab^t Theodore Meminger late Pay Master to said Reg^t & returned in his accts as absentees, which sum is payable to 1^st Ch^s [undecipherable: Wellstoner?] Paymaster 2^d Rg^t of Inf by order of said Brown & Scott— W.S. [underline: Pay of the army 1800— $40.—] The Sec^y of War—