[161] Obtaining it unless you are present to urge the business and in respect to the extra pay which you and both doctors I believe the difficulty of Obtaining that will be greater. I am therefore of Opinion that the whole had better be deferred until your arrival here, which I hope may be this [State?] Congress are now disposed not only to disannex the [attendance?] of the Commissioners but also to Annihilate their Appointments which I believe will soon take place. you must not therefore [be?] too sanguine [undecipherable: toper?] of the [success?] of the Applications you meditate. I shall represent your Wishes to the [undecipherable] in respect to your Officer rent. Andrew Dunscomb's Esq^r Sam^l [signature] Sir Office of Army Acct^s Oct^r 7 1786 I have attended to your ration Acct against the United States and Wish that you would please to procure the Approbation of Congress prior to my Settlement of it the General Officers not being Confined to any determinate quantity of rations a Particular Commissary can [not?] do necessary from the whole Accounts of the deliveries should be procured or that they make out from their own Knowledge the quantity that they have received of such manner as they may attest to it — neither of which I suppose can be found so as to Ascertain your Claim with Sufficient Certainty. General St Clair Sam^l [signature]