New York, May 17 1786 Sir I have received the subject of your letter of the 21^st November last, and attended to the papers contained therein, as your Certificate mentions that a part of your papers and money were borrowed. I cannot give you my opinion until I am furnished with the remaining papers to [undecipherable] they are full or not, and with your Account Current, particularizing your different payments, as accurately as possible. The sum of money which remained in your hands upon the loss of your papers, the sum received after their loss, and your Vouchers for the disposal of the same, or your approbation that it be charged to your Account. on this Account Current I wish for your disposition, that the stating contained in it is just and true, that you have no further means of information, that all your papers respecting the business are given up, and that you have not directly or indirectly appropriated to your own use any part of the public monies committed to your charge as Paymaster to the Regiment. In order to enable you to make this stating I have enclosed to you a transcript from the Public Books of the monies charged to your Account. [undecipherable] Edward [undecipherable] New York May 17^th 1785 Sir I have reconsidered the claims of some of the Officers of the Maryland Line, concerning which Gen^l Smallwood has written to me "as well as yourself." Gen^l Knox wishes you to make out at one view a list of all the Officers of the Line, [showing] their appointments, promotions, discharges and arrangements, which list he wishes you to lay before Gen^l Smallwood for him to sign as a compleat history of the Line and as the most authentic evidence that can now be had of the justice of the Officers Claims and the propriety of their admission — this he informs me shall have his sanction — You will readily concur with me, that such a sanction will be of use, both in respect to what has been done, as well as for the admission of those Officers claims which are at present disputed — John White Esq New York May 11^th 1785 Sir It will be necessary that the Gentlemen you inquire concerning in your letter of the 3^d Instant, show by the Muster of the Regiment (which I suppose are in this Office) the times they were in service in order to entitle them to a depreciation on their subsistences, and to procure from the Secretary at War a Certificate that they were deranged under the resolutions of Congress of the 3^d, 2^d October 1780, to support their claim to the Commutation. I do not know under which circumstances these Gentlemen were continued after the Regiment was disbanded, for if they then retired they cannot come under the before mentioned resolutions — A common Power of Attorney acknowledged before a Magistrate, is sufficient authority for any person to receive from me, the certificates due to the Late Army. Henry [undecipherable] Esq[undecipherable]