The Commissioner of Army Accounts to whom was referred the Memorial of Jedediah Huntington late a Brigadier General in the Army of the United States begs leave to report that the difficulty attending the Petitioners and other Similar Cases has been that the General Officers not being Confined to one daily Ration as was the Case with the Regimental Officers have drawn from the different Commissaries such quantities of provisions on Account, as they thought proper for the Supply of their respective tables, that but few of these Gentlemen have kept any regular Account of their drafts upon the Commissaries, and that the Accounts of such Issues are so deficient that the Commissioner for the department cannot furnish from his Office such information as would probably include the whole quantity drawn by each Officer. Your Commissioner, by reason of this uncertainty, declined the settlement of these Gentlemens Accounts, none of which have been closed excepting those of General Thompson under the resolution of October 3. 1786 and General St Clair under that of July 3. 1787. Your Commissioner begs leave further to report that General Huntington has rendered such an Account of the rations he has received as that he is ready to Attest to their Amount, and that the above mentioned cases being precedents in his favor his demand has no further Objectionable, than what they were attended with attending it. All which is Humbly Submitted. Office of Army Accounts September 25 1787