[The Hon^ble Board of Treasury] Office of Army Accounts New York Jan^y 8^th 1788 The Assistant Commissioner of Army Accounts to whom was refer'd the petition of John M. de Haas begs leave to report. That the late General De Haas while commanding the first regiment of Pennsylvania received from the United States for the pay, and raising of said Regiment in 1776 & 1777 about the sum of 53,000 dollars, that your Commissioner has examined the Vouchers for the expenditures of this Money and finds that about 25,000 dollars were paid to the Officers for the pay of their several Companies for which proper vouchers appear, and that the residue has been advanced for the purposes of raising the regiment on the new establishment &c. but which advances are not supported by receipts from any one of the officers, but merely charged by General De Haas in his Memorandum Books. Your commissioner further begs leave to report that from the evidence of M. De Haas, the son, that several principle vouchers are withheld by a M. Shaller who had the Confidence of Gen^l De Haas and acted as Quarter Master to the Regiment which vouchers he will not surrender without a pecuniary reward. and that altho' several Officers have on settlement of their accounts voluntarily Credited the monies charged them and which appears to be the same as is set forth in the Memorandums, yet as far the greater part of the Officers have still to account with the United States, and several being dead, your Commissioner conceives it will prove injurious to the United States to exonerate the Estate of Gen^l De Haas before those Officers to whom he has advanced Money have accounted for the same. all which is humbly submitted J. Howell