[undecipherable] [undecipherable] The Commissioner for Settling the Accounts of the Army Prays Leave to Report That a Resolution of Congress of [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] orders that Chaplain be Appointed to the [undecipherable] That the Memorialist received in [undecipherable] an Appointment from General Lincoln — at the [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] That the Ordinance of [undecipherable] 1788, not having [undecipherable] ordered [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] by law of the [undecipherable] without any damages — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] expences by the Resolution of the Congress [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] been included by the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] your Commissioner therefore prays that [undecipherable] present Memorialist [undecipherable] Commutation to M^r Smith and that if Congress thinks proper to grant the Same his case would require an express resolution for that Purpose. Ja^s. Percy [endorsement notations, undecipherable] Jan^y [undecipherable] 1786 Your Commissioner has been Justice to report, That a Resolution of the 2^d June 1785, has directed that those Officers of the Hospital [undecipherable] who were detained in Charleston after the Surrender to the British Forces for the Purpose of Attending the Sick Wounded of the Army of the United States freed on Consideration of the Extra Expences which they Incurred by the performance of [their] duty, be allowed the Sums offered to them respectively many [as] appeared in Returns deposited in the War Office [and] was transmitted and signed by David [Oliphant] deputy director of the Southern Hospital That your Commissioner has Examined the Returns alluded to in the above Resolution and finds that the Name of the Memorialist was in the That Doctor Oliphant has [undecipherable] furnished the Memorialist with a Certificate that "there [was] to testify that the Rev^d Doctor Smith Chaplain to the Gen^l Hospital for the United States of America on his department [stationed] in Charleston after its Surrender to the British until the middle of [Feb] 1783, when [he] was [undecipherable] to the Office of his Majesty's Host [undecipherable]" That altho' the Memorialist was [undecipherable] [previous] to the time in which those expences were Incurred yet he has been Considered as entitled to pay [as] Officers of the Army [prisoner] but not [otherwise] entitled to the allowance of his expences with the [same] taken with the Other Officers, by Virtue of the performance of his duty while Prisoner, appears to be the Spirit of the [above] mentioned resolution — is a [question] which your Commissioner begs Leave to submit for the determination of Congress July 21 1786 [undecipherable] From thence to Philadelphia [prisoner] on Parole and that his name was omitted by mistake in the [List] [submitted] of the Hospital Officers entitled to extra expences, and [sent] to the Sec of War dated Aug 10 1783, by aⁿ David Oliphant, July 10, 1786 Col D. [undecipherable] N.B. [He] was [allowed] for extra expences Thirty dollars [undecipherable] [?] 3.