[Docketing on cover: from [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] 10. 1785] [Address on cover: N. Yo: Line. * / [undecipherable] / Com. of Army Accounts / [undecipherable]] [FREE] War Office May 28.^th 1785 Sir On the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] of the Secretary at War, [undecipherable] received [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] also [undecipherable] his accounts for Captain [undecipherable] before. There is a late resolution of Congress passed the 8^th March last, it is provided that all Officers who were discharged by the [undecipherable] of the 31^st December 1783, be allowed half pay in commutation of pay with those Officers who served under the preceding resolution of the 8^th [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1780 — by that Law, Captain [undecipherable] is clearly entitled to commutation — [undecipherable] his Brevet Commission which was annulled by the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to no other allowances or considerations as are [undecipherable] in the law of [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. I am [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] Your Most Obed^t and very [undecipherable] Ser^t [undecipherable signature] [undecipherable] Commissioner [undecipherable] Com^r Army Records