[Commissioner of Army Accts] March 14^th 1790 The Commissioner of Army Accounts to whom was referred by the Secretary of War the Memorial of John [undecipherable] [undecipherable] begs leave to report That on the [undecipherable] July 1780 the Memorialist presented the hands of Captain [undecipherable] Belfield Paymaster to his Regiment the Sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for which the said Belfield gave his Receipt, purporting to have been received for the use of the Regiment and to be applied as the Colonel might please to direct. That on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1781, Capt. Belfield certified that the aforesaid sum paid into his hands by the Memorialist was applied to the use of the Regiment and accounted for by him to some officers in the Staff departments and that no part of it was applied to the use of the Memorialist or any other private purpose whatever. In the above the Commissioner of Army Accounts [undecipherable] [undecipherable] That the Memorialist paid the Money out of his hands, yet he also kept the direction of it in his power and therefore made himself accountable for its distribution. And the certificate of Captain Belfield is in [undecipherable] — it does not express which of the Staff departments, whether of the United States, or of the State of Virginia he accounted [undecipherable] his Vouchers with for the expenditures of this Money — but admitting the Money was expended [undecipherable] agreeable to the certificate of Captain Belfield, yet a Question arises in the [undecipherable] of the Commissioners what head [undecipherable] it was appropriate to the [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for Government was appropriated for [undecipherable] purposes [undecipherable: pay] whether the Union or the State of Virginia has settled with his [undecipherable] without making any advances made by the Memorialist or the Payment to [undecipherable] any Bill that has been appropriated for the Recruiting, [undecipherable] involves chiefly in the State and [undecipherable] Continental Accounts and should be settled by Virginia and [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] to those [undecipherable] for the United States [undecipherable] a legislative [undecipherable] [X] [undecipherable] the Commissioner [undecipherable] in his possession a Statement of the Account of the Memorialist made by the late Commissioner of Army Accounts [which] Statement [undecipherable] heavy charges against the Memorialist [undecipherable] appears unaccounted for, either with the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] of Virginia — In this Statement [undecipherable] the Sum [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] was admitted to the [undecipherable] of the Memorialist. That the Commissioner has in his possession a Statement of the Accounts of the Memorialist made by the late Commissioner of Army Accounts which Statement includes a Credit for the Sum he now prays for and even with that allowance there still appears a large Sum in the Old [Office] of Continental Currency to be accounted for with the United States and with the State of Virginia — From these the Commissioner is induced to Conclude That Col. [undecipherable] has at present no equitable Claim to the allowance petitioned for. But should [undecipherable] remain in Suspense until the several Sums chargeable to him are properly stated and the accounts of expenditure satisfactorily made — It appears That the Regiment has been settled with by the State of Virginia as to the 31^st Dec. 1781 and by the United States from that period to the dates of their respective Discharges There it appears by the Records of this Office that [undecipherable] Belfield received in 1781 of the United States [undecipherable] of 100,000 [undecipherable] for the use of [undecipherable] Regiment, [which] it is [undecipherable] has been credited the United States in Settlement of the accounts of depreciation of the Officers [and] Men by the State of Virginia — That the Regiment has been paid their pay in [undecipherable] [manner], [undecipherable] settled with for them by the State of Virginia to the 31^st of December 1781 and by the United States from that period to their respective discharges. The Commissioner has it not in his power to determine whether the officers [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] this department [undecipherable] belongs to the [undecipherable]. The [undecipherable] has not been [undecipherable] 2. [And] it appears that Col. [undecipherable] has rec'd his Pay, Depreciation of Pay & Commutation. But whether any Cash in lieu of [undecipherable] the Commissioner is not able to ascertain and belongs to a Department not within his Cognizance — That the