[124] New York October 25^th 1786 Dear Sir, Yours respecting Mentor's pay has been attended to — I have made out his claim for commutation as & am ready to deliver the certificate to Doct. Craigie agreeable to your request when he shall [undecipherable] for it — a copy of the account I now enclose — his further claims must be referred to [undecipherable] because the resolve of December 26^th 1781 arranges all officers not rejected by the then Secretary at War and who did not belong to the line of a particular State. Gen. [undecipherable]'s certificate I shall deliver to Doct Craigie Sam^l [undecipherable] Maj. John Brooks New York December 7^th 1786 Dear Sir, Your accounts and transactions at this [undecipherable] entered in the Public Books are not sufficiently paged as to admit you to give up the bonds taken as security — when there is any uncertainty remaining respecting the Public monies unaccounted for — and you cannot have a Quietus untill I close myself here over the accounts and untill I have the receipts for the certificates you have issued which last are absolutely essential to the public