[James McH[undecipherable]] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [T. B[undecipherable]] Sir I find on examination of the Depreciation accounts of the State of Penn that Cap^t [margin: Depreciation Accts] Thomas Barr of [undecipherable] Artillery has received his depreciation from said State from [undecipherable] to July 24. 1780 amounting to Eighty three [Pounds?] [undecipherable] Penn^a — that he has received [his?] depreciation from Massachusetts for same period [strikethrough: there] there is a deduction from a [undecipherable] of of twenty three Pounds [undecipherable] Lawful Money [undecipherable] which can be deducted from his [undecipherable] at State still due him & admitted to the Credit — of he respectively States — [undecipherable: amounting to $53 [undecipherable]] [Audt of Penn. and Dep^t Rev^r —] [signature] June 9. 1789 Joseph Howell [undecipherable]