[Report] Office of Army Acc^ts Oct^r 4^th 1786 The Commissioners for Settling the Accounts of the late Army to whom was referred the Memorial of William Stuart and Palmer Carty, beg leave to Report. That independant of the expectations of the Regiments from the Vacancy, which may a rise on their on the promotion of a Col^o to the rank of a Brigadier on this Establishment, the Officers have a claim to promotion by Virtue of Vacancies, which have or are supposed to have arisen in the Course of the Service and was not filled up. Dec^r in the line of [undecipherable: Majors] — made by the absence or resignation of Major John Taylor who was Stationed on furlough from Oct. 1 1778 to July 1, 1779 and afterwards never mustered in the Musters. Made by Major Carlton Wardlaw who was made a prisoner from August 2^d, 1777 to Oct 25, 1782 mustered on Furlough from Nov. and Dec^r 1780 to the Year 1782, and omitted afterwards in the Line of Captains Robert Burns who is mustered no longer than June 1, 1779 James Heron ............... resigned July 1780 Reuben Taylor ......... no longer than to Oct 31, 1788 Michael Gilbert ........... ditto .... ditto Mathew M^c[undecipherable] transferred to the Invalids Feb^y 12, 1781 John Hughes who is mustered, resigned in Dec^r 1781 Philip Siebert transferred to the Invalids March 1, 1782. That Supposing that those Officers were legally discharged those remaining as far as the Musters can determine their rank, claim their promotion agreeably to the annexed list N^o 1 of the Officers the most Compleat is as accurate as can be made out from the records of the Public Office. That a Resolution of Congress of the 2^d Nov^r 1778 having directed that no promotions or Appointments take place in the regiment, and the number of Officers being According to the Establishment & Calculations thereon which and annexed to this Report N^o 3, out of proportion to the number of Men were Causes as your Commissioners presume, that no promotions took place in those Vacancies, and that the Col^o of the Regiment about the 1^st January 1782 reduced the seven Companies which had been Commanded by the Captains whose places were then Vacant, and drafted the Men into the other Companies of his Regiment. That your Commissioners find by the Musters that Several Officers of Col^o J^o Livingston's Regiment were promoted to Vacancies about the time that Regiment was discharged and the Officers were deranged. That in what instances or by what Rules Congress may think proper at this time to direct your Commissioners to make up the Pay rations & Commutation to Officers agreeably to their Claims of Rank by Virtue of Casualties which happend while the Army Existed is [undecipherable] of the power of your Commissioners to determine as there is no precedent of this Nature Known to Your Commissioners except the one to Col^o Tenant mentioned by the Memorialist, all which is humbly Submitted J.P. Charles Thomson Sec^y