Newburgh Jan^y 18^th 84 [Sir] You will doubtless recollect, that when I reported on you in the evening of the 11^th Ult^o respecting my pay as Post Master to the [Army], you were pleased in consequence of the Parace Salary, & being the only person of that department, to promise me the payment of it without sending the Accounts to Philad^a for a Warrant, conceiving that you would be sufficiently justified in doing it. M^r Wolfe who lately presented the account for payment, informs me that you could not then pay it & that you did not know whether you could do it at all; in this case I must beg of you to inform me what method I shall take to obtain it; and for I shall find it very hard to be put off with a Certificate, after having so fair a promise of pay in Bills at least, if not Cash — If a request or Order from the Post Master Gen^l will be sufficient, I will thank