[To the committee of Congress on Mr Wetmore's memorial June 8. 1785. N York Copied [signature]] [strikethrough: Agreeably to the] Being requested by your Honorable Committee, I take the liberty to state my opinion respecting the allowance to be given to claims of Mr. Wetmore, my late Deputy, [strikethrough: for use as compensation] for his as Deputy Paymr the army services, in [strikethrough: that station] — while I was the Deputy at Camp he was employed as my assistant and on my promotion to the head of the department was left by me to transact the same business which had before that time fallen to my share — The deputies being appointed by Congress, I made application for him to to the War Office, [strikethrough: that he might] be recommended to the appointment, but that Board having a new arrangement of the department in view did not think proper that it should [strikethrough: then] take place, which occasioned it to be delayed until the 16^th of May 1782 when Congress authorized me to make it — his salary, also not being stated, I consulted Mr Morris who respecting the allowances to be made him, who and Mr Morris concurred in sentiment with me, that one thousand dollars annually, (the same as as Auditor) and the rations subsistance and forage granted to Officers who serve in Camp, would be no more than what would undoubtedly be given him [strikethrough: granted. to him] — I informed Mr. Wetmore at the time that this what would be his probable salary and he continued to execute the duties of his Office to the satisfaction of the public on of the army until the close of the war, when he closed his accounts with me, and I suffered him to receive in his hands a sum nearly equal amounting to his pay at the rate I have now mentioned and supposed that Congress would make his allowance to commence from the time of my promotion — of this opinion I presume the Committee will be also of opinion with me that this allowance is reasonable when [strikethrough: the] it is considered that before this arrangement [strikethrough: was made] there were deputies in almost every [strikethrough: who was] State, and that [strikethrough: there was] there was only two [strikethrough: Deputies] appointed by me, the one for the main and the other for the [strikethrough: northern] southern Army, who transacted the business of their offices without any Clerk or Assistant —