convey present One. Have you settled with any Brevet Officers and have you allow'd pay agreeable to such Brevet Commissions? Lieut Colonel [undecipherable] has such and by such Commission, and Claims the pay thereof. [undecipherable] if a resolve of Congress of 20 April [undecipherable] do not confine his claim to that of a Captain only, It will make some difference in the Commutation. [undecipherable] will make [undecipherable] are [undecipherable] given with the Commissions and [undecipherable]. Dear [undecipherable] Care, and Give your [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] Post. I am Your's &c A W [undecipherable] J. Howell Jun Esq^r: July 10^th 1785 Dear Sir This day rec^d yours of the 28 Ulto Containing [undecipherable] the Papers — It will be necessary that [you] stated the Vouchers by which the account [undecipherable] of that Part of the Papers you have stated, is founded, as well the claim of the non Commissioned, and privates before [undecipherable] Certification — [undecipherable] here you have only called for Subsistence, and not pay nor to the [undecipherable] 20 as the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] from that time to the Discharge of the [undecipherable] System [undecipherable]. Further, [undecipherable] will it be proper [undecipherable] I know the same by a particular statement thereof that entries may have been made on my Books. When the Accounts of the [undecipherable] as well [undecipherable] Those after he became the [undecipherable] of this State [undecipherable] to me for the Balance due; I shall [undecipherable] you the Certificates [undecipherable] the Signatures of M Pierce and myself that you may fill them up and thereby prevent any imposition on the road — to enable you to do this, you will retain a Copy of the Report, and the respective Sums, and particular information corresponding with my record shall [undecipherable] be sent you. As to Numbers, letter, and names [undecipherable] with the Several names.