back your family. I sincerely recommend you on this [undecipherable] after [undecipherable] all together ignorant of the extent of your misfortune. I cannot find that the Governor of Maryland is here in the office with a [undecipherable] answering your description. I wish you therefore to give me more explicit information of this that I may know what Receipt is wanted by him. Pierce [To The White[undecipherable] S—] New York Feb 27^th 1786 Dear Sir In answer to your question whether after the time for exhibiting the accounts is expired any further evidence or information can be received by the State to support his account, I must inform you, that I find the instruction given to the Act of Congress by their officers here to be, that the States must produce all their proofs at the time of laying their Vouchers & that they are precluded from exhibiting any further documents afterwards — The answer to your other question the Board of Treasury I presume has furnished M^r Winder ... I am &c Pierce [To Andrew Dunscomb Esq^r] New York March 6^th 1788 Sir In consequence of the inclosed act of Congress N^o 1 I do myself the honor to inform your excellency that Gen Putnam who commanded a division of the Army at Bonk Hill, in the year 1777 removed from the military Chest on the 9^th of September in that year your three Thousand dollars, in order to advance Major [undecipherable: Rennard] [undecipherable] dollars and [undecipherable] for the use of [undecipherable] the bounty of british deserters, which were drawn [undecipherable] into the Georgia service, by order of his excellency general Washington, as appears by the copy of his obligation N^o 2. That on the 9^th of September general Putnam delivered the said three thousand dollars into the hands of [undecipherable] major of artillery [undecipherable] James [undecipherable] and Joseph [undecipherable] which they promise to repay on demand and each receipt [undecipherable] of him in the behalf of the delegates from the State of Georgia for the use of paying the bounty to british deserters which they had taken out of the division under his command, by his excellency general Washington, as appears by their original receipt of which the inclosed N^o 3 is a notarial copy. That on the 13^th of September 1777 captain [undecipherable: Fallan] returned into the military Chest five hundred dollars and on the 18^th of the same month captain Mattocks returned one hundred [and] twenty dollars of this money, making together the sum of six hundred and twenty dollars, which sum is the whole amount that has been returned, and leaves the sum of two thousand three hundred and eighty dollars unaccounted for and still due on the [above]-mentioned obligation. That general Putnam has, in consequence of the before guided act of Congress, been credited by me for the above mentioned balance, and it has therefore become necessary that charges be exhibited against the officers in whose hands the money was deposited, in order that the same should be accounted for or returned into the treasury of the United States. I am therefore to request that your excellency will please to direct that the same may be done and that proper and effectual steps may be taken for the recovery of this Money should it not have been paid for the benefit of your State. [His Excellency The President of Georgia] Pierce