The Commissioner for settling the accounts of the Army to whom were referred on the 18^th of June last, the Petition of Duncan Campbell, begs leave to report: That he not only has he exhibited no account N^o 1^st comprising, or incorporated therein ordered by Richmond, amounting to seventeen pounds one shilling & 3 which accounts your Commissioner begs leave to observe has been already paid, in an old account rendered by M. Campbell at Albany in May 1777. That he exhibits the account N^o 2 & 3, for advances made to his Men in Canada, amounting to one hundred & thirty nine Dolls. but your Commissioner is of opinion cannot be allowed, not be only for want of vouchers, but because that in a settlement made with the Disbursement [undecipherable] at Crown Point in July 1776, [undecipherable] paid to his hands the whole pay owing to his Company [undecipherable] which would enable him to reimburse himself for [undecipherable] his advances, and to those thus proved, but he had also been allowed to be improperly, such sums as he himself said he had advanced to those left behind him in Canada. [Next paragraph] he exhibits the account N^o 4, amounting to one hundred & [undecipherable] pounds [undecipherable], being advances made in Canada, by [undecipherable] his men, furnishing them with [undecipherable] & Provisions, and paying their forage, or what leaves your Commissioner to observe that it appears extraordinary, that it should [undecipherable] have been presented at the time, when by [undecipherable] payment [undecipherable] other advances in Canada, and that there is no voucher produced of his payment of the money; which has caused your Commissioner to doubt the propriety of admitting the same without more [undecipherable] satisfactory evidence. The charge of £21.12 for bounty contributions The was not particularly excepted against, because it appears that the sum was included [undecipherable] and that [undecipherable] would authorized him to make the payment; in other respects it is however subject to the same objections as the other parts bearing in this account. all which is humbly submitted. Office of Army Accts Sept 1, 1788. [seal]