This applications of the same nature — the vouchers depending on Doctor Martin to be made when he [undecipherable], were impossible to be [undecipherable] by any other accounts — The [undecipherable] as they render as no written can be [undecipherable] Sufficient to ascertain the sum due to the [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the persons to whom the money is to be [undecipherable] — When therefore such a payment is made the certificate for the amount must be delivered to some person in his name, and it will depend on him to make such satisfaction to the [undecipherable] as he pleases — All which is humbly submitted [signature] To Charles Thomson Es^q [Secy Congress] Army Comr's Office May 31^st 1786 Sir, I have considered the contents of your letter of the 22^d [undecipherable: Ulto] and am of opinion that it is necessary for you personally to apply either to the Secretary at War in [undecipherable] for the confirmation of your rank and continuance in the service, before I can be justified in making a settlement of your accounts. The commission you inclose was in a regiment which was [undecipherable] within the year for which it was raised, your not being