of Congress of the 31 December 1781. throws him out of the Jurie and that therefore an allowance of further pay than what he has already received cannot now be admitted unless the approbation of Congress is Obtained— As I have not therefore delivered out his Commutation untill I hear from you—
                                                                  I am &
                                                                  J.P. Major Story: Report:      Office of Army Accounts Sep^t 23. 1786       The Commissioner for Settling the Accounts of the Late Army, to whom was referred the Petition of George Thompson, Executor to the Estate of the Late General William Thompson, begs Leave to report that the Petitioners demand for a return of the General from the 3^d day of June 1776 the time of his being made a prisoner to the 3^d day of September 1781 when he died is attended with some difficulties, the principal of which is that the General Officers of the Army, not being Confined to one ration daily as was the Case with the Regimental Officers, have drawn from the different Commissaries such quantity of provision on Account as they found necessary for the Supply of their respective Tables, that but few if any of the these Gentlemen ever kept any regular Accounts of their drafts upon the Commissaries and that the Accounts of that department as will appear by M^r Dennalls Letter to your Commissioner accompanying this report are in such