[Docket: Phila Jany 11. 1784 / from Oliver Wolcott Jun.] [Address: [undecipherable] / Public Service / John Pierce Esq. Comrs / for adjusting the debts / of the Army] [Aft Post Camp[undecipherable]] Pay Table Office Dec 15^th 1783 Sir We have rec'd Information that the Short Levies who served in the Army from the State of Connecticut for eight Months in the Year 1782 are included in the Accounts which you are now adjusting and are soon to receive Certificates for their Pay in the same Manner as the Line — We have thought it necessary to inform you that the Short Levies who have in the Course of the late War served for a shorter Period than one Year have invariably been considered by this State as Militia in the Service of the United States and that those who served in the Years 1779, 1780 & 1781 have rec'd their Pay from this Office — An Act of Assembly has been passed directing a Settlement to be made with those who served in the Year 1782 and many of them have already rec'd their Pay in State Securities — If you should proceed to include them in your Accounts they will receive their Pay twice and the Public must greatly Suffer — We trust that you will take this Matter into immediate Consideration and inform us what has been done and likewise propose some Method to prevent any Misunderstanding in the Settlement — We are unhappy that it is not in our power to stop the Settlement here — but it will be impossible as the Securities are mostly issued — What we have now to request is that you would forward a List of the Names of those Men who are included as 8 m^th men in your Rolls, together with an Acct of the Regiments to which they belonged and the Time they were in Service, that we may compare them with our Accounts and adopt some Method by which a Loss to the Public may be prevented — We are Sir with greatest Respect your most Obed^t & humble Servants — Roger Wales Oliv. Wolcott Jun [Address: John Pierce Esq. Commissioner for adjusting the Accts of the Army —]