New York January 23. 1787. Sir A claim being presented to me for your pay and subsistence in the year 1783 has occasioned an examination into your account as settled with M^r Cimenant — and I find that he has omitted charging you with a sum of money received by you from Colonel Farrington in the year 1780 — probably because you had accounted for it in some other manner, but as I have no evidence of it the error must stand as a charge against you, untill you shew a sufficient reason to the contrary. — I find also that he has allowed you Six Dollars P^r month extra pay as commanding the Artillery probably under the Resolution of February 18^th 1779 which being made in the old emissions is not considered as Specie, in which reason Congress on the 10^th of January 1781 stated the extra pay of the commanding Officer of Artillery at 40 Dollars Monthly, but omitted any provision for the Officers in the other departments which leaves them in the situation they were before, on the old money of establishment. This money then being reduced to about 10 for one by depreciation must make your allowance to be a very small sum, and I therefore omitted it in the state of your account now