[30737] [Ind] [1 Pa] Annapolis 12^th July 1784 Sir, Your letter of the 11^th Instant, to the Committee of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. That the Officers [undecipherable] shall [undecipherable] [undecipherable] have received the [undecipherable] men the Pay [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Congress [undecipherable] into their [undecipherable] and — [undecipherable] Two Thousand, three hundred — & twenty [undecipherable] [undecipherable] go which was placed in the bank — of the Pay-Master of the [undecipherable] Regiment, for the — subsistence of the Regiment and became due — that — Doctor Bunt over & above his dividend of the above [undecipherable] — had refused to deliver to the Pay-Master one hun- — [dred] & [undecipherable] dollars of the Public — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] I fully [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] informed that the Pay-Master [undecipherable] to your letter dis- — [undecipherable] that you received an Answer to the dis- — resting the measures you Should pursue on the de- — casion — have with the copy of a letter dated at — West Point 4 June of 84, Signed by a member — [of] the late Officers of the American Army been refer- — red to a Committee — in the letter last mentioned — the following paragraphs [undecipherable] — "In a certain — [undecipherable] is directing we asked around for a [undecipherable] — to [undecipherable] nothing prevented itself but an order — on [undecipherable] Lowell which you had placed on the — hands of the Pay-Master for the Officers Subsistence — afte[r] after deducting three months Subsistence for the [undecipherable] — who were to remain in service including the — Invalids we found there was a sufficient [undecipherable] — to furnish us with Six weeks Pay, and on — Application to the person with whom [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] for the purpose of Exchange — deliver the money, taking on receipt — that Amount." The Committee before they can form any judg- — ment on this matter, deem it [es]sential to be par- — ticularly informed of the mode of Application — made use of by the Officers who have signed this — letter, and have desired me as their Chairman — to desire that you would, as early as [possible] — procure & transmit to me an Affidavit — of the Pay-Master wherein the transaction with — all its concurrent Circumstances shall be — minutely & Accurately Stated. I am Sir your Ob^t & very h^ble Serv^t [signature: undecipherable] John Burns Esq^r. Pay-Master Gen^l.