Providence 8.th Feb.y 1790 I have had the Honor to Receive your favours of 20.th Ult.o on the Subject of the payments of the last Muster of the Invalid Pensioners in Rhode Island — you mention that the Secretary of the Treasury has Orders to be used under the Necessary arrangements for the last payments — I therefore think proper to inform you that I have not as yet Received a bill, or any Communications from the Secretary of the Treasury on the Subject — but Sir, as soon as I am favor'd with the Necessary Communications. I shall not lose a moments trouble with [undecipherable] to accommodate [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Class of our Fellow Citizens — & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [strikethrough: admitted] Gratuities shall be [strikethrough: admitted] as per Invalids — you will see by the Returns of Invalids Committed to you from [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] to Congress on the [undecipherable] that Several of the Invalids have Carried out of the State since [undecipherable] was [undecipherable]. This State have accordingly refused a [undecipherable] upon their [undecipherable] applications. I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] difficulties, now I am to Trouble with those of this Description — I have the Honor to be Sir Your Most Obd.t Humb.le Serv.t Jere. Olney The Hon.ble Secretary at War [Jere Olney / Providence Feb.y 8.th / 1790 / —ooo—] [Col. Olney at Prov. / [undecipherable]]