[Endorsement on verso, written vertically: Board of Treasury — Petition of James Burnside Doyle [undecipherable] & Robert Underwood [undecipherable] Clerks to [the Commissioners for Settling Acc^ts of the] Hospital & Clothing Departments] [seal] The Board of Treasury to whom was referred the Petition of James Burnside, Doyle Swney and Robert Underwood, late Clerks to the Commissioners for Settling accounts of the Hospital and Clothing Departments — Beg leave to Report. That the Resolves of Congress of March 9^th 1786. Establishing a new System for Settling the Accounts of the five great Departments, having fixed a period of three Weeks for the termination of the Business under the former Commissioners; the principal part of the Books & Papers belonging to the respective Offices might, in the opinion of the Board, have been got ready for delivery, previous to the 15 day of April last; and that at all events, the furnishing more than one [undecipherable] warrant necessary to complete this object after that period. That on this account the Board conceived themselves authorized to make an extra Allowance to the Principals of the Department of a Months Salary, presuming that from this allowance compensation would be made by the Commissioners to their respective Clerks, who it is to be supposed were principally employed in the Business of preparing, delivering the Books and Papers of their several Office — That no such compensation has not been made by the Several Commissioners, and as the principal Business for which it is claimed, has been done by their Clerks (whose Salaries are not more than is necessary for their actual Subsistence) The Board Submit to the Consideration of Congress, the following Resolve — That there be allowed to each of the Commissioners for Settling the Accounts of the five great Departments, the Salary of one Clerk from the 15 April last, to the time when the Books and Papers of the respective Departments were delivered over to the present Commissioners — All which is humbly Submitted Sign^d Samuel Osgood Arthur Lee August 21 1786 W^m Simmons } Ja^s [undecipherable] } Cha^s Jarvis } were continued in Service under the Doyle Sweeney } new arrangement D. F. Underwood } Charles Burnside } Thomas B[undecipherable] } 4 of them for 21 days each 20 [7?]/... 118. 4[undecipherable] 3 1 M^o & 2 days...... 44 [9?]/... 133. 3[undecipherable] Dollars — 251 [undecipherable]