Philadelphia June 9. 1784 Dear Witmore You may remember my informing you that I had applied to Congress for the [strikethrough: allowance] permission to charge [of the money deficient in your accounts] — the Committee to whom my letter was referred, would not report unless at the same time your allowances were stated and it was understood whether you receiv'd your pay in public securities or not — and as I went [answered at] to Congress soon after [while] the affair was [strikethrough: adjusted] even under the necessity to apply Officially for a stating of your pay, which under considering circumstances and the then penurious disposition of Congress, [it] was the worst time that could occur — I however laboured in your favor and thought I had got the Committee to report a reasonable salary — but was surprised when it appeared that after [strikethrough: ing the deficient money & he refused to name] what they had reported and the same day Congress had passed for you no more than seventy five Dollars a Month from which the subsistences you have receiv'd is to be [undecipherable] on which [undecipherable] the members of my acquaintance, represented the injustice of the measure, which I thought would have had the desired effect, but was much chagrined to find that altho' eight States and part of another were in your favor, that the question was lost and [that] the all resolution must stand as it was. I am so happy that [your] the disappointm[ent] should happen when you were absent & had not an opportunity to be heard, but can assure you I did everything in my power, and in my own salary have met with the same fate — I am D^r Sir sincerely & affectionately yours [signature] [M. Witmore Esquire]