[Cha: Thomson Letter under y^e Resolves of Congress May 1785.] Office of Secretary of Congress May 31. 1785. Sir/ I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency two acts of the United States in Congress assembled, one passed the 3 November 1783 directing the paymaster General to deposit in the hands of Regimental agents the Certificates for the arrears of pay due to the Officers and Soldiers of the respective lines of the late Army to be by them delivered to the individuals or deposited for their benefit as the Supreme Executive of their Respective States shall direct. The other passed the 27^th of the present month Requesting the Legislature of the Respective States to cause the Services of the said agents to be examined, and to make them such allowance as they may think them entitled to. Your Excellency will be pleased to lay them before the Legislature of your State and communicate to me their determination that I may report the Same to Congress. With great Respect I have the honor to be His Excellency The Governor of Virginia Your Excellency's most obedient and Most humble Serv^t. Cha Thomson By The United States in Congress assembled May 27. 1785. Resolved That the Legislature of the Respective States to which Regimental and other agents (appointed for the purpose of receiving from the Paymaster General Certificates, on a final Settlement of the balances due to the Officers and Soldiers of the late Army) belong, be and they are hereby Requested to cause the Services of the Said Agents to be examined, and make them such allowance as they may think them entitled to, and charge the Same to the United States. That Such agents deposit the Certificates that may Remain in their hands with the Supreme Executive of the States to which they Respectively belong agreeably to the Resolution of Congress of the 3 November 1783. Cha Thomson Sec^y