Polk Family Papers Box 9 Document 07

Buena Vista July 19, 1847.

Major W. A. Spark Paymaster U.S.A.

Receipt for $600.00

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Received of D. Hunter Paymaster U.S.A. this nineteenth day of July 1847, at Buena Vista Mexico the sum of Six hundred and __________dollars cents, on account of Mexican Hostilities

as follows:

Pay...$_________ Subsistence . $_______ Forage . . . $________ Clothing . . $_________ $_______ $600.00

For which sum I am accountable. Wm Spark Paymaster U.S.A. (Signed Duplicates.)