[strikethrough: Need a young man tolerable and from whose knowledge] [strikethrough: and assiduity in business I had the nearest dependance] [strikethrough: that on the settlement of his account in the course of] his [undecipherable] it [undecipherable] from his [undecipherable] to him, att[undecipherable] & which I [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that he from some accident or mistake is deficient in his Cash in the sum of five hundred & twenty dollars which he avers never came to his use in any manner whatever, but that the same is lost, and cannot be reclaimed — I have therefore humbly to request that Congress would be pleas'd, as has been done in cases of a similar nature for other Persons to grant that the same may be pass'd to my credit, on the settlement of my accounts, or that some other relief may be afforded that will be just and proper J.P. President of Congress— Philadelphia 1 November 1784 Having been appointed by John [undecipherable: probable reading "Pierce"] Esquire Pay Master Gen. to take charge of the cash granted for the use of the Pay Office which appointment took place the 1 January 1783 and continued till the 1 July 1784 In that [undecipherable] very large sums passed through my hands and unfortunately a loss of five hundred and twenty dollars was found upon ballancing the cash account which sum I believe to have been lost in the following manner. In the Month of June 1783 at the time the Office was removed to Princeton by order of the Secretary at War. A note of the Honourable Robert Morris dated 10 June 1783 payable in 6 Months for one hundred dollars was paid by mistake along with other of his bills. And in the month of May 1784 in paying several large sums a mistake arose which occasioned the loss of Four hundred and Twenty dollars by paying three sheets of M^r Morris's 6 Months notes of the larger denominations in place of the smaller — 3 Sheets of 170 dollars ea amts to 510 3 d^o d^o. of 30 . . . . . . . . . 90 difference 420 every possible enquiry was made for the recovery of this sum but without effect. This I declare upon my Sacred Honor to be the truth, and that I never appropriated any part of such public monies [strikethrough: [undecipherable] appropriated to [undecipherable] use or any private use] whatever. Geo Reid I George Reid late Cashier to the Pay Office do Solemnly swear that the circumstances stated in the annexed Certificate are Just and true to the Best of my knowledge New York February 27. 1787 Geo Reid Sworn to before me Tho. Hazard Att^y. Office of Army Accounts New York February 26. 1787 This may certify that Captain [undecipherable: probable reading "Leonard"] Couper was annexed to the Invalid Regiment in the late war & continued in the same to the third day of November 1783 after which he was continued at West Point in a corps of Pensioners and received from the United States while in that corps the annexed sums and that he was with the whole corps discharged by the Secretary at War in consequence of a resolution of Congress of June 7 1783 placing all the Invalids on one establishment