[Illegible Text notice: Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically] I received your favor of the 17^th May at this place with the inclosures, and as far as I am capable will attempt the settlement of the Accounts of the Georgia Line; but I think a number of difficulties will stand in the way of reducing them to the order you point out, owing to the Distressed situation this State has been in more than any other, and the loss of Books & papers. The Legislature of the State issued an order for me to settle the Accounts of the Georgia Line, in consequence of which most of the Officers have exhibited their Accounts and obtained Certificates for the Ballances due to them, which Certificates have been taken up and cancelled by the State, so that it will be impossible to exchange them for yours.— I believe every Officer who drew for a Months pay in favor of the [undecipherable] has given a receipt for it in his Account, but the Accounts being in Savannah and being necessarily detained here some time on business puts it out of my power to make you the return at this time. The Settlement & the Body made has been for pay and Rations, and the pay and Rations of Servants when the Officers proved their own no returns. I put Rec[undecipherable] for the Commutation. In looking into the Accounts I notice [undecipherable] respect [undecipherable] Accounts, I have to [undecipherable] who have [undecipherable] in the Money, in order to which it is necessary to be furnished th the [undecipherable] Charges against those to whom it has been [undecipherable], in some instances this will be difficult, of which the mention one or two, viz. Large Sums have been found by the State and advanced to the Officers [undecipherable], but the charges [undecipherable] to be retained for most of the [undecipherable] Receipts for the Year '83, '84, & '85. A large sum was drawn of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and audited by Col. John White[undecipherable]; the 6^th Battalion [undecipherable] and no account rendered. What [undecipherable] be done [undecipherable] For those settlements already made, their [undecipherable] mentioned on the pay[undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be paid to the Officers, the [undecipherable], the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] every Officer [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Officers of the Regiment of Horse and [undecipherable] Gallies [undecipherable]. The Accounts are to be adjusted for any Ballances [undecipherable] pay and Rations that may be due them, the but very few of those Accounts have been produced. Most of Officers have made a demand of Interest on the Ballances [undecipherable] them on their Accounts, but as I was not instructed on this head I refused none, indeed wherever any doubt arose I always inclined to the side of the Public, as any mistake in favor of the claimant can be more easily rectified than than one against him. I shall be glad to know what is to be done respecting Interest on Accounts and if allowed at what rate % Cent. I wish also to be furnished with the resolves of Congress as they are not to be got in the States. After the reduction of Savannah by the British on the 29^th Decem[ber] 1778 but few of the Georgia Line remained, and those were again re[undecipherable] at General Ashe's Depot at Brier's Creek soon after, when for but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] have come from Virginia to get the Little Battalion [undecipherable] settled that [undecipherable] them. I shall be glad to be furnished with any necessary [undecipherable], [undecipherable] the business [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] John Wereat