[Copy] The Paymaster General, to whom was referred in the Note from the [undecipherable] the affairs of his most [undecipherable] [undecipherable] dated the [undecipherable] 1790. respecting the demand of the heirs of those French Officers who died in the American [undecipherable: service] during the war, [undecipherable: begs] leave to report — He must [undecipherable] be [undecipherable], it appears, that [undecipherable] in the pay [undecipherable], and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] of Congress of the 4^th day of April 1790. it included his [undecipherable] from the benefit of any depreciation — by a subsequent resolution of Aug. 3. 1790. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] well [undecipherable] to the effect that the Officers who had voluntarily [undecipherable: quit] the service, [undecipherable] resigned all [undecipherable: pretensions] of [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] might be also, as another question of August 12. 1790, [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], but the Officers who [undecipherable: had fallen] in our service cannot be said to have voluntarily [undecipherable: quit] it [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] any of his rights — and no [undecipherable] of such Officers [undecipherable] appear to have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] claim [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] The following [undecipherable: resolution] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] April 1790. [undecipherable: granting depreciation] to the Army, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the United States [undecipherable] [undecipherable]: [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the Debt [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable: heirs] of [undecipherable], I find it is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the same [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] due to the other [undecipherable], but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the service, while [undecipherable] presume [undecipherable] in the service of the United States, at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] will be [undecipherable: partly justified]. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the Army & the [undecipherable] of the money [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable: southward] [undecipherable] which has not been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], appear to [undecipherable], in the case of [undecipherable] the last [undecipherable] evidence [undecipherable] to be obtained — the evidence of [undecipherable] of the Officers [undecipherable] under [undecipherable] [undecipherable] ought to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as it is probable that the money was [undecipherable: paid] to the [undecipherable: Citizens] — [undecipherable] 2^d [undecipherable], [undecipherable: George] [undecipherable] of his [undecipherable: detachment] who must be [undecipherable] more accountable to the public. I find an [undecipherable: act] [undecipherable: Congress] of the [undecipherable] day of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: granted] to the Widow or orphan children of the Officers who died in the service, [undecipherable] half pay, to [undecipherable: commence] as [undecipherable] as by the [undecipherable] States — which [undecipherable: resolution] [undecipherable] the Officers [undecipherable] but there is no [undecipherable: other] [undecipherable] out by which [undecipherable] the Heirs of their [undecipherable] who [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in any claim [undecipherable] I therefore submit this cause to [undecipherable] considerations —— [it cannot fairly be [undecipherable: charged]]