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Accountants Office May 8 .th 1796 I Certify, that there is due to a detachment of the 1 .st Sub Legion stationed at West Point for the service of the Ordnance Department the sum of seventy three Dollars for their pay for the Month of March 1796 which sum is to be transmitted to Nicholas Fish Esq .tr Sup .t of New York -- and by him to George Fleming, at West Point who is accountable for the due application thereof.

Drs 73 The Secretary of War William Simmons