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48                                                                                                                                  Accountants Office
                                                                                                                                       November 9th 1797
                                              
                                              I certify that there is due to Forman Cheesman Superintendent of the Navy Yard at New York the Sum of One hundred Dollars being for his compensation from 1st July to the 30 September 1797 inclusive which Sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas [undecipherable] Supervisor New York to be by him paid to the said Forman Cheesman.
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Dollars 100 The Secretary of War


                                                                                                                                   Department of War
                                                                                                                                   Acccountants Office
                                                                                                                                    November 9 1797


                                                    I Certify that there is due to John M Lovell Lieutenant and Brigade Major the Sum of Eighty four Dollars and eighty four Cents being the amount of his pay Subsistence and Forage for the Month of October 1797
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Pay Army 55. . . Subsistence 19. 84 Forage 10. . . Dollars 84.84

   The Secretary of War