[To M^r. Sullivan Oct. 25. 1785 [undecipherable] N^o 29 [undecipherable] Let^r B[ook] 8[?] [Copied]] North. October 25^th. 1785 Sir Your letter to me of the [undecipherable] being particularly considered, in answer to which I am [obliged] to inform you that, I do not find myself sufficiently authorized to grant your commutation [for] [undecipherable]; for as in my opinion, Congress, or a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] any Court before whom the manner of your leaving this Service of this Country may properly come, will undoubtedly [strikethrough: not] [interlineation: not] [interlineation: in this country] consider you [interlineation: not], in the service, at the end of the war, which is made [undecipherable: principally] necessary to give any Officer of the Army a title to the commutation — In respect to the amount of pay that was due to you at the time you left the service, unless some resolution of Congress or Law of this Country [undecipherable: debars] you from receiving it I am of opinion that it must be granted you. M^r Casberry's case differs materially from yours — he was not an Officer of the United States at the time of his leaving this country, and he had accomplished every service, by which his commutation was constituted a debt of the United States. [undecipherable signature] --- [To the President of Congress Oct. 26. 1785 [Copied] [undecipherable: Correct copy] & [undecipherable: Signed] at [undecipherable],] North. October 26. 1785 Sir [undecipherable] your Office. The [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] of the Pennsylvania Troops in Philadelphia — he was suspected of being concerned in their [undecipherable: revolt] and [has] left this country as consequence of such suspicion, [has] applied to me for his pay and commutation — [strikethrough: Being at a loss in what light his [undecipherable] to be considered, has occurred — [undecipherable] my [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] Congress [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] — to do justice [undecipherable] [undecipherable] address your Excellency on the subject —] In [undecipherable] I have informed him that it appeared to me his leaving this country with[out] [undecipherable] need be [undecipherable] — [interlineation: he was an Officer] — his appointment [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] and that therefore he was not in the service at the end of the war, which is made necessary to entitle [him] to the commutation, but [that] the pay which [was due] to him at the time he left [this] country must be paid, unless some resolution of Congress or Law of this country [undecipherable: debars] him. [undecipherable: At a loss] what manner to conduct myself on this [undecipherable: occasion] I do myself the Honor to [undecipherable] to your Excellency to Congress for its direction and and [undecipherable] the utmost regards Your [undecipherable] most [undecipherable] [signature] His Excellency the President of Congress