In Council Nov^r 20^th 1789 Sir We have rec^d your Letter of the 19 Oct^r and have given the directions requisite to procure you the information you require — but as the persons have generally been paid in this State by the Judges of the several Orphans Courts — returns must first be obtained from them. We think it necessary to observe that the [undecipherable: Invalids] in this Maryland will probably be paid up to the first of the present month, and we presume it will be your care to reimburse the State the sum paid since the day on which the United States assume the payment of them — We have the Honor to be Sir Secretary of War J. Howard [Nov^r 20. 1789 Hon^bly H Knox Esq Secretary at War 102]