War Department March 14^th 1790 The Commissioner of Army Accounts to whom was referred by the Secretary the Memorial of John Vining to White Eyes leaves to Report. That in the 9^th July 1780 the Memorialist produced the Vouchers of Captain I. Belfield paymaster to his Regiment the Sum of One hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for which the said Belfield gave his Receipt expressing to have been received for the use of the Regiment and to be applied as the Colonel might please to direct. That on the 2^d October 1780 Cap^t Belfield certified that the aforesaid Sum put into his hands by the Memorialist was applied to the use of his Regiment and accounted by him to some of the Staff departments and that no part of it was applied to the use of the Memorialist or any other private purposes whatever. As the above Commissioner of Army Accounts say they [strikethrough: can] find no [strikethrough: other] vouchers [strikethrough: or other] that the Memorialist paid this Money out of his hands, yet he also kept the direction of it in his Power & therefore made himself accountable for its distribution. That the Certificate of Captain Belfield is very day [undecipherable: excepted] it does not not specify which of the Staff departments, whether of the United States, or of the State of Virginia, he accounted to a left his Vouchers with for the expenditure of this Money — but