[To Carter] [456] [152] New York 19 December 1789 Dear Sir I have hitherto forborne answering your favor of the last month in hopes that a arrangement for paying the invalids would have been decided upon, which would have enabled me to have [strikethrough: given] furnished [strikethrough: you with the] you more precise information — But this not being effected I can not defer it any longer — It [strikethrough: does] not appear to be the intention of Congress the last Session [strikethrough: to have] to have any further inspection of the Invalids — Congress presumed that the States had taken all the necessary precautions, and that no [strikethrough: receipts] necessary ought to operate to strike off any the one now on the list of