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The Commissioners for settling the accounts of the Army to whom were referred on the 8th of June last, the Petition of Duncaney Caney bills, beg leave to report:
That said Caney bills has exhibited no account No 1. comprising, or incorporated therein ordered by Richmond, amounting to seventeen grounds on clothing &ca which accounts your Commissioner beg leave to observe has been already paid, in an old account made by Mr Caney bills at Albany in May 1777.
That he exhibits the account No 2, for advances made to his Men in Canada, amounting to one hundred & thirty nine Dols. in which your Commissioner is to opinion cannot be allowed, not be only for want of vouchers, but because that in a settlement made with the Department for in Point in July 1796, [strikethrough: that was] paid with his bounds the whole pay due to his Company [strikethrough: who was] [strikethrough: unable] him to reimburse them of for his advances, and to allow him payment, but he had also allowed to be recompensed by such sums as he previously said he had advanced to those left behind him in Canada.
That he exhibits the account No 3, amounting to one hundred & ten grounds No 3 concerning, being advances made in Canada, by us his own Men, permitting them with Arms & Provisions, and paying their Voyages, in which your Commissioner beg to observe that it appears somewhat extraordinary, that it should not have been presented at the time, when by [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] payment [undecipherable] other advances in Canada, and that
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Document image does not match DE1 info. Document is dated 1 Sept 1786 (cex24)
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09/08/1785
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Addressed to President of Congress from Paymaster General
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Richard Henry Lee
John Pierce
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