New York December 22d 1786 Dear Sir [undecipherable] of September last, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] what appears to be [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] when I was on Georgia the Auditor of that State produced to me the bery [undecipherable] of these companies, [undecipherable] it [undecipherable] he had adjusted and had paid delivered the State [undecipherable] into the hands of Leut Van Wagenner for [undecipherable] to delivery to the soldierys had then no objection to the proof no hibited for the performances of the services of these men, but [undecipherable] may appear soon that the state ought present the sane being passed to call Ltr Wagner to account [undecipherable] me the receipts of discharges of the men, for that reason, that the State ought not to have a credit beyond its payment and that the discharge [undecipherable] be lodged as a [undecipherable] against another [undecipherable] from the soldier. I supposed that at their [undecipherable] they claim of Mr. Morrill was a subsequent to [undecipherable], in what he had [undecipherable] [undecipherable] transaction with which the United States had an advance, I on this opinion I still continue, and I suppore [undecipherable] not authorized to consider the pay of these men as due to any individual, but on the contrary apeared by the State, and therefore according to the Resolves of Congress already done the other advances [undecipherable] [undecipherable] State it appears paid [undecipherable] that your original return, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the sum and as authority from this [undecipherable] he [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] that [several lines undecipherable] [undecipherable] passed by now, to be considered as [undecipherable]- J. Pierce

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