depreciation, and in respect to your actions those of [undecipherable] one to cut off by a resolve of January 20^th 1779 — It will be necessary to clearly prove that it was totally out of your power to made the application in time and that you have not the means of gaining information that an act existed cancelling the claims of the Army, or you will not succeed in Congress — I am &c Pierce D^oc Hugh Hodgen 185 New York November 17^th 1786. Dear Sir You Stand charged as having received, I think, about three hundred & twenty livres for contingences the auditors want your account & vouchers for these contingences otherwise they say this sum must be set against your pay — If you produce vouchers for the purchase of certain swords; but do not inform where you received the money for them — if you are entitled, you ought to Stand charged also with the money which was advanced you by the public — the Auditors wish therefore to be informed, that they may State your account aright in this article of your accounts — You charge your salary at 4.000 dollars ℗ annum only the resolves of Congress the Auditors say give you One Thousand Pound Sterling, they