[May 18^th 1786 To Henry Goodwin Esq^r [speed]] Office of Army Accounts Sir New York May 18^th 1786 [you are requested [undecipherable]] It will be necessary that the [undecipherable] Accounts [undecipherable: also by the] in your letter of the [undecipherable] of Instant, also by the [A] Musters of the Regiments (which I suppose are in this Office) that [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] they were mustered subsistences, and also procured from the Secretary at War a certificate that they were not discharged, under the resolutions of Congress of the 3^d N^o 26 days of October, 1780 to [undecipherable] support their claims to the commutation. I do not know under what circumstances [undecipherable] your former were continued after the regiment was disbanded for if they then reenlisted, they cannot come under the before mentioned resolution. 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 [undecipherable]. [Henry Goodwin Esquire]