N. York 25^th November 1785 M^r Pierce [the] [Pay] Master General [having] by his letter of the 18^th Instant, tendered to me agreeably to the Directions of this annexed Resolution of Congress certain Certificates which remain with him unsued belonging to Inhabitants of this State, [Under] the Owners of them may have Recourse with the State on which there may be Balances due to the States [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] him, I have therefore to request that you would be pleased to take upon yourself the trouble of this Business, and am with great Respect Sir yours Most Obed^t Servant Geo Clinton [undecipherable] Auditor of the State of New York --- Tuesday October 11, 1785 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] assembled. [Pursuant to] yesterday — [C]harged from the board of treasury, to whom was referred a petition of Sims, Nichols and Richard Boyd agents to the invalid corps and Harlem regiments, in behalf of themselves and [their?] age vis a [undecipherable] the agreement of artlife in and the costs of [undecipherable] and mimes. Resolved That when the agents appointed to [their] certificates, or the balances due to the cost of the late continental army (not appertaining to any state) shall have finally adjusted the accounts of their respective corps with the commissioners of army accounts, the board of treasury be, and it is hereby authorized, to ascertain and report to Congress, such commissions as from the report of the four Commissioners, [they shall judge] [undecipherable] to the [powers of] [undecipherable] Resolved, That the certificates which [shall be] delivered to the respective agents abovementioned, to the individuals to whom they belong be returned to the commissioners of army accounts, with whom the said agents are to settle the accounts of their agency, relative to the [undecipherable] to the individuals aforementioned, and the commissioners for army accounts shall transmit, such remaining certificates to the Supreme executive authority of the State in which the [parties] having a right to receive the same, were [enrolled] in the same manner as is provided for in the resolves of Congress of the 3^rd of November 1780 and N^o [undecipherable] of May 1782 in the case of regimentals appertaining to the several States.