[undecipherable] Charleston S^o Carolina October 10^th 1784 John Pierce Esq^r Sir [undecipherable] for Orders from [undecipherable] in respect of [undecipherable] Pounds the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Dollars in favor of [undecipherable] H. Smith [undecipherable] were drawn on my Subsistence Account payable to them, when [undecipherable] these sums were to be placed among [undecipherable] I am required by General [undecipherable] on behalf of the Officers of the So Carolina Line, to apply to you to Appoint some Person in this City to settle with them for their Accounts of Pay, Commutation &c they being informed that you has been made such an Appointment in every other State, but this for that Purpose — Mr. [undecipherable] some time before he left this City for Europe, informed me that you had given him [undecipherable] Expectation for that Purpose had not been of your [undecipherable] that they [undecipherable] were likely to change. he had [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the Papers [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the Horse Artillery, which I [undecipherable] am [undecipherable] to obtain [undecipherable] of for an Order 1783 — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] upon Copy of the Letter before left [undecipherable] — Gentleman Mr. [undecipherable] has lately [undecipherable] here with an Appointment from the [undecipherable] to settle the Accounts of this State, against the United States, who has been applied to by the Officers, but they were informed by him that he had no Authority to Settle with them — Will you inform me whether the Civil Staff are allowed Rations of so, what quantity, [undecipherable] your Commutation I am Sir with Great Esteem Your Obed^t Humble Servant John [undecipherable] [undecipherable] John Pierce Esq^r Pay Mast. Gen^l Philadelphia