[172] petition of the [undecipherable] — but I do not since [an] account for these as never before for former Commissioners answer that contain act limiting the claims I have dated the 8 day of November 1785 having presented any for him demands of the nature the petitioner is therefore deprived from the same notice of petitioner as the [undecipherable] of Council is made in his favor All which is humbly submitted Office of Army Accounts New York March 9. 1787 [undecipherable: J.P.] New York March 12^th 1787 Sir I have received your letter of February 2^d and would have made an application to the Treasury Board as you requested, but M^r Philips having given up your vouchers, and your accounts being now ready for settlement I judged it preferable that you come here as soon as you can, and settle the business yourself. I am &c. [undecipherable] M^r Joseph King [753] Dear Sir New York No 18^th 17[undecipherable] [Your] letter of the 2^d M^r [undecipherable] having [been read] in answer to which I must tell you [that I would advise] that you deliver over your papers to the Loan Officer. I do [wish to have] have the Master Rolls come into the hands of the officers whether immediately from any Office [undecipherable] I want them here however as soon as possible and wish you to use your influence in obtaining them for me —— I wish you could inform me when Maj. Pendletons bill will be paid as I am urged to advance the money for him, and will do it if I can know when I shall receive the money —— The after charges made to the Officers, has been the subject of much more trouble to me, than any part of their Gentlemens accounts and they have not been made in any instances except when it could not appear by their settlements that the [same] had been accounted for, in the instance of Cap^t Edmonds I found indeed he had credited Cloathing received to the amount of [undecipherable] Dollars but the account did not shew that it came from Colonel Carrington on the contrary the same charges [250] one or that Gentleman and the one he acknowledged to have [undecipherable] did not come and it was not possible for me to be [undecipherable] formation that he had neither a part with the after charges Colonel Carringtons charges I supposed had arisen from [undecipherable] issued from his department and not from that of the Clothier, such a charge therefore appearing against [undecipherable] in accounts for, was necessarily passed to Captain Edmonds debit — Colonel Hood drew from my [undecipherable] desires in Cap^t Edmonds on the 18^th of March 1783 and Maj. G. Jones on the 26^th of July 1782 drew from me also eighty dollars on Captain Edmonds account which sums the Captain has attested to as received in his acc- elited by you, if he is yet dissatisfied in respect to these two sums I will transmit you certified copies of these Gentlemens receipts and also of his attestation to their receipt — In the accounts examined and sent to Hopkins I have endeavored to save the public where any omissions have been made in the Officers settlement