[100] S^ir New York August 1786 I received your favor of the 2^d Instant this Morning. the Board of Treasury on the 1^st Instant Wrote you informing you of their permission for leave of absence agreably to your request, you are therefore at Liberty to Come on, whether their Letter is received by you or not. Sam^l R. John White Esquire Report. Office of Army Accounts Sep^t 1 1786 The Commissioner for Settling the Accounts of the Army, to whom was referred on the 28 June last the Petition of Duncan Campbell — Begs leave to Report — That M^r Campbell has Exhibited an Account N^o 4 for expenses on an Expedition ordered by General Arnold Amounting to Seventeen pounds one Shilling V^S. which Account your Commissioner begs leave to Observe has been already paid in a Settlement made by M^r Campbell at Albany in May 1777. That he Exhibits the Accounts N^o 2 & 3 for Advances made to his Men in Canada. Amounting to One hundred & thirty Seven dollars. which your Commissioner is of Opinion cannot be allowed. and not only for Want of Vouchers, but because that in a Settlement made with the [strikethrough: the] Petitioner at Crown Point in July 1776, then was [undecipherable]