Office of Army Accounts Phila^da 19 March 1795 Sir Agreeably to your request of this day, I have to inform you that the Claim of the late Samuel Galdon for the sum of 720 3/5 dolls is founded on this Sum being due him for ballance of his pay & for one years supernumerary pay as a deranged Officer— this Sum was sent from the Military Sheet as early as 1789 and on the 24 Aug^t following was returned to the paymaster General by Ebenezer Storer paymaster [strikethrough: to the Dep^y] on the Settlement of his Accounts with the Auditor for the Eastern department— it was the misfortune of the late Galdon that he was not present when this Money was drawn for him [strikethrough: but as] it was reduced in Value Six hundred P Cent [strikethrough: between] the time it came from the Military Sheet to the day it was returned— as the United States do not suffer the loss of the depreciation of the money whilst in the hands of the Paymaster or Regimental [strikethrough: given] Colo Galdon without the [strikethrough: intervention] [strikethrough: Congress] or [strikethrough: prayed] for— but if granted it will open a door for [strikethrough: thousands] a [strikethrough: train] of Similar Matters— If Colonel [strikethrough: Galdon] had produced the [strikethrough: orders] of Governor [undecipherable] [strikethrough: regard] [undecipherable] and the Vouchers for