[Duplicate] Pittsburg, 25 May 1784 Sir, I received your letters of January the 8 and 23^d since mine to you in this occation have given you any valuable information. — The Book of Accounts of the Penna Line has within me a Acct with one since the St. Devon 1779, to which time the Affairs and fellows were paid in this district, this Accounts Acquired & Stated, and the Auxillary Vouchers lodged with one. The payments since that periods have been handled, and very improperly made by M^r Booreman the D. Paymaster here without any Warrant for so doing, while M^r Morris Arrangement took place, when he applied to the Commanding Officer here a Colonel John Gibson of the Pay Line, who thought proper to Grant Warrants for the Army. M^r Booreman had Advanced Monies and other Officers of the Penna Line, which were in consequence Entered in my Books. I have transcribed from my Warrant Books Acct of all Amounts paid by M^r Booreman to M^r Reid and other Officers of the Penna Line so far as comes within my Knowledge. M^r Reid is a Wretched, indolent [undecipherable] — when Charged about this place since he was Charged, and a little before I sent your Letter he disappeared. I have made every enquiry respecting him, and find that he has encamped on any [undecipherable] ten or twelve Miles from this place, down the Ohio. I am apprehensive he will give back some amount of the Monies from M^r Booreman. But he is not worth worth looking after. He is as poor and incompetent as Poverty and Sloth can render him. As a Publick Defaulter he has a bad Mind. — At my request he was brought to a Court Martial for crimes of an unparallelled Nature, but like some other Publick Delinquents he slipped through the Hands of Justice [undecipherable] the House, paid by Surrogates. [undecipherable] retains now one half of the Soldier Pay of the 8^th Penne Regt in his hands for the times Attended the Acct of the Regt which I think was Eleven Months from February to Decem 1779. — I shall be happy Sir to render you on the Publick every information in my power; the I doubt much in the present Juncture if any thing I can do or say will prove either use[ful] or useful. I am Sir Your most obed Humble Serv^t J. Fowler [Joseph Howell Ag^t June Pay Office Philadelphia]