Philadelphia July 11^th 1784 Sir The Superintendent of Finances having con- fined me to close a sum of money from Boston for the subsistance of the Troops at West Point, I committed the draft into the hands of the Pay master of the American [undecipherable] with a view to prevent the money from acting to apply it for the subsistance of the regiment as A braveness — The unexpected discharge of those Troops having the sum of $2276 [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] remaining on [undecipherable] property of [undecipherable] more than [undecipherable] in the hands of their superior[s], and it was [undecipherable] for the subsistance [undecipherable] offices of the Garrison, altho' they had received the two Months pay voted them by Congress, took the whole of it into their profession [undecipherable] — A money themselves, amounting to some [undecipherable] such effect — about six [undecipherable] pay — they have already relived to their several homes, and the amount of what is still due to them, forces the public [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] expend the money to repay it to the public — This unexpected disaster, falling from my own [undecipherable] situation, having to hand money is- parting my reputation and pictures, and the command of this last days I provisions as superintendent [undecipherable]