their drafts upon the Commissaries and that the Accounts of [strikethrough: such Issues are so different that the Commissary for the] department cannot furnish from his Office such information as will probably include the whole quantity drawn by each Officer; your Commissoner therefore 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^d 1786. and Gen^l. St. Clair under that of February 3^d 1787. Your Commissoner 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 Objections than what they were attended with. All which is Humbly Submitted The Secretary of J.P. Congress. Si^r New York Sept. 25. 1787. I received your Letter of the 11^th Instant and find that M^r. Bedlow the Post Master here did by your order on the 3^d of July 1786. received from me a Certificate dated that day for 112 dollars. on Interest, from the first day of December 1777. being the balance due Lieut. [strikethrough: Richard Walker] for Subsistence while recruting in 1777— I am J.P. M^r Peter Eden New York Sept. 26. 1787. The Commissioner of Army Accounts to whom was referred the Petition of Michael Henderson. begs leave to report; That the Petitioner Appears by a Certificate of William M^cDonald late a Lieu^t. in his Brittanick Majestys Services to have served in the British Army in the War against Canada which Service intitled him to have received by that Kings Proclamation dated the 7. October 1763 a grant for three thousand Acres of Land That the grants of this Land by the beforementioned proclamation were Confined within the bounds of the present States jurisdictions. and not within the Country now ceded by the States to the Union— That the Petitioner has produced his own Attestation that he has not received this donation. but it is not in the power of your Commissioner from any records or Papers of the United States to determine who has or who has not received it. That the time & Opportunities which has Elapsed since the Petitioner became intitled to receive this Land