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LouisVille 
22 Octer [October]  1799 
Received from his Excellency James Jackson Govr &c. [Governor et cetera]  fourteen dollars fifty cents being for my expences [expenses]  coming from the frontier with an Indian horse & for what I paid the Indians for bringing the said horse from the Nation.  
 
[Signed] James Ford