hand your family. I sincerely recommend you on this occasion, [though] altogether ignorant of the extent of your misfortune. I cannot find that the Governor of Maryland is here in this office with a [undecipherable] answering your description. I wish you therefore to give me more explicit information of this man, that I may know what Receipt is wanted by him. Pierce To Th^o White Esq^r New York July 27^th 1788 Dear Sir, In answer to your question whether after the time for exhibiting the accounts is expired any further evidence as information can be received by the State to support his account, I must inform you that I find the construction 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 prohibited 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 1786. 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 [undecipherable: probable reading Peeks hill] in the year 1777 received from the military chest on the 9^th of September in that year your three Thousand dollars in Order to advance Major Remnant [strikethrough: eight dollars and] [undecipherable] for the use of [undecipherable] relating to 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 same 9^th of September General Putnam delivered the [said] three thousand dollars into the hands of Remnant [undecipherable] major of artillery [undecipherable] James Fallan [undecipherable] & Joseph Day [undecipherable], which they promise to repay on demand and each [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] of them in 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 the command of his excellency General Washington, as appears by their original receipt of which the inclosure N^o 3 is a notarial copy. That on the 13^th of September 1777 Captain Fallan returned into the military chest five hundred dollars and on the 1^st of the same month Captain Mattocks returned one hundred 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 before mentioned obligation. That General Putnam has in consequence of the before [recited] 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 the Money, [should] it not have been paid for the benefit of your State. Pierce His Excellency — The President of Georgia