Sir New York Sep^t 4. 1787 Your Letter of the 26 April last respecting Your brothers Settlement has been received — in Answer to which I have to inform you, that he is returned on the Arrangement of the Georgia Line, as having exceeded his bounds in disgust to the Service, that the Commission which came enclosed in your letter appears to have been originally to some other Person of a different rank, whose name has been erased, and that of Edward Wood, inserted in the place of it, and that by a resolution of Congress limiting the Exhibition of all Army claims to the first of August 1786 he is totally precluded from a Settlement, in my Office, was his Claim ever so well evidenced, without a special resolution of Congress for that Purpose. M^r James Wood Georgia. [305] --- Sir New York September 19^th 1787 Joseph Clay Esq^r who acted as Deputy Paymaster to the Southern Army, had a Sum of Money directed to him, by one, in the year 1781. Consisting of the New Emissions emitted by the Legislatures under the Act of Congress of March 18 1780 which the Deeds to whom I entrusted this business received from the States of Maryland & Virginia and delivered on the