Office of Army Accounts New York March 9, 1787 Sir I beg leave to inform your Excellency [undecipherable] that I have now in my hands in certificates which I principally received from the regimental agents under the act of Congress of October 11^th 1783 the sum of 33,305 ¾ Dollars — That I have written to the different executives of the States requesting them agreeably to the resolution to apply to me for the certificates belonging to their citizens in consequence of which I have detained to a considerable amount, but that the sums now on hand appearing not to be demanded and being understood subject to the United States or myself to the hazzard of a loss in case they meet with any accident and it being also reasonable that a person should be a signed when these claimants for them should be present I take the liberty therefore to request that Congress will be pleased to direct the manner by which I am to dispose of them — That I have independent of these a further