depreciation- and in respect to your rations those of 177[undecipherable] ma[y] be cut off by a resolve of January 30^th 1779 - It will be necessary to clearly prove that it was totally out of your power to make the application in time and that you had not the means of gaining information that an act existed limiting the claims of the Army- or you will not succeed in Congress- I am & J Pierce- Doc^r Hugh Hodge [Ex] New York November 27^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 credited 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 [undecipherable] in this article of your accounts - You charge your salary at 4.000 dollars P^r annum only. the resolves of Congress the Auditors say give you One Thousand Pound Sterling. they will therefore unless you give & reasons to the contrary allow you the difference in their statement - I shall be happy to hear from you not only on account of these difficulties, but also of that mentioned in my letter to Lt^t Whitmore I am &c J Pierce- Col Humphreys Examined New York. Nov^r 27^th 1786. Sir Your two letters of July 21^st and October 4^th are come to my hands - I have examined your claims upon the public and find that, Mr. [undecipherable] the Pay master of your regiment drew from me in 1779 the sum of Seven Hundred twenty Dollars & 37/90 as due to you for arrears and for your years Pay as a supernumerary Officer this money he returned on the settlement of his accounts on the 26^th of August 1779 when the money was twenty for one as the Public do not suffer the loss of the depreciation of the money while in the hands of the Paymaster you will be only entitled to receive the specie amount of this sum when it was returned into the public Office, which being so small, I am mortified that I am obliged to give so disagreeable an information And am with Esteem &c Lt Col. Samuel Carlton. Salem. J Pierce [Examined]