[undecipherable] Office of Secretary of Congress Aug 2^d 178[undecipherable] Sir, I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency, two acts of the United States in Congress assembled, one passed the 3. November 178[undecipherable] directing the [undecipherable] Governor to deposit in the hands of regimental agents the certificates for the arrears of pay due to the officers and soldiers of the [undecipherable] Lines of the late [Army?] to be by them delivered to the Individuals, or deposited in their hands as the Supreme Executive of their respective States shall direct. The other passed the [undecipherable] of the present [month?] requesting the Legislatures of the Respective States to cause the [accounts?] of the said agents to be examined, and to make them such allowances as they shall think them entitled to. Your Excellency will be pleased to lay these before the Legislature of your State and communicate to me their determination, that I may [send?] the same to Congress. — With great Respect I have the honor to be Your Excellency's Most Obedient and Most humble Servant Cha. Thomson His Excellency The Governor of Washington[undecipherable]