NYork Sept 29, 1787

Sir

In answer to your letter of 1 Aug last I am

to inform you that if the claims of the North Carolina Officers (yet unsettled) for arrears subsistence due to them can be collected & attested to and sent on to the Office I will report their situation to the Board of Treasury - Tho from the presumption that those Officers have been supplied with Rations from the Public Magazines, and as they have never made any demand for it to the Commissn while settling the accounts of the line in No Carolina there is reason to suppose very little can be due

 and the resolution of Congress limitting the claims of the army

to them to the 1 Augt 1786 will also debar them of a settlement

without a special order for the purpose.

I enclose you a copy of the resolution of Congress granting a Commission of [STAMP of the National Archives of the United States is placed here]pct

o the agents of Regiments not pertaining to the line of any State. On the amount of their issues it may be a a precident in your case but it is to be observed that the Commissn has been paid in final Settlement Certificates from the Registry of the Treasury. I am Sir Yr Mt Od Servt

                                                  signed       John Pierce\

Robt Fenner Esq Dt The United States in account current with Doctr Solomon Halling In commutation of five years full By Certificate No. on Ints Pay in lieu of half pay for life as from 22 March 1783 800 a Surgeon in the Military Hospitals By ditto ditto 800 of the United States — 2400 By ditto ditto 800 2400

   examined & Settled

New York September 26, 1787

[undecipherable name]

                            [Number 29317 is written on document twice - not part of original]

To Mr Rob Fenner Sepr 29, 1787

Hallifaxe No Cara

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