[110] to Report — respecting the Petitioners dem and for Commutation. That Congress did on the 19^th of October last refer to your Commissioner a report made by a committee of Congress on the Petition of sundry Officers of the Corps of Artificers for half pay a Commutation which report Your Commissioner was directed to take order on and is the Note following; see [undecipherable] 76. Your Commissioner Supposes that he is not warranted to grant the Commutation to the Petitioners unless he has the direction of Congress All Which is humbly Submitted Charles Thomson Esq^r Sec^y of Congress [initials: J.P.] Sir Office of Army Accounts New York, Sept^r 14. 1786 The Accounts of Cap^t Roth as presented by You to this Office for Settlement cannot in their present Situation be admitted. the purchases made by him are entirely unsupported by Vouchers, neither is the Public informed in what Manner the Articles were Appropriated or to what use, [undecipherable] it may appear necessary that Cap^t Roth produce the receipt of the [undecipherable] of the Regiment, or [undecipherable] for the delivering of those Articles. and I am further of Opinion that the Accounts come more properly under the Notice of