[Copy] To Cap^t Addison Richards on 27 bond Jan^y 15. 1790 Copied [marginalia: Investigation of [undecipherable] the present claim — / [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] the Comptroller / vid, a [undecipherable] Thomson / now short [undecipherable] / in [undecipherable] col [undecipherable] Record / son / See [undecipherable] Hartman — / General Index Military Cards] Office of Army Accounts [undecipherable] New York 13 Jan^y 1790 ...notable. Mr Goodhue having laid before me your Claim for Subsistence while a Prisoner accompanied by a further claim for one Years pay allowed to Officers who were considered as Supernumerary. I have formed a Statement of the first which [strikethrough: I send you to] at the request of Mr Goodhue I enclose you, on this Statement I have taken into View the whole of the Monies paid you by the United States as well as those by the State of Massachusetts this I was under the necessity of doing as I found the State had calculated your pay on wrong principles — a balance on this account appears still due you & for which I am ready to issue a Certificate — Your claim for one Years pay allowed to Supernumerary Officers I do not consider myself justifiable in admitting for the following Reasons Viz: 1^st Col^o Hutchinson Reg^t appears to have been raised only for one Years Service ending on or about the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 2^d On the Establishment of the New Army by Congress in the [undecipherable] day [undecipherable] 1775 this Regiment was not considered, neither does it appear that Col^o Hutchinson was ever Reappointed to the command of a Continental Regiment 3^d The Act of Congress of the 22 Novem^r 78 and the subsequent Act does not in my opinion apply to Officers who did not belong to a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Reg^t [undecipherable line] 4^th of Congress was in my opinion averse to granting to Officers who were Prisoners any [undecipherable] emoluments other than their pay and Subsistence while in actual Captivity, consequently the Act of [undecipherable] of the 14^th Nov^r 78 does not apply to your case. 5^th The [undecipherable] your State [undecipherable] of Massachusetts had only [undecipherable] Infantry 76 Regiment, which were all compleatly Officered before & at the time of your Exchange, consequently no Vacan-cy offered or could be obtained by you — 6: An Arrangement of the Line of [undecipherable] Massachusetts, took place in Septem^r & Novem^r 78 & in [undecipherable] 79. if you had been considered [strikethrough: as supernumerary] an Officer at [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] that time doubtless you would have been Returned as deranged. [undecipherable] I am S^r Your Obed. Ser [signed] [undecipherable: probable reading "Jn. Burrall"] Cap^t Addison Richardson