Report To the Sec'y at War 13 April 1790 Upon the Claim of Lt Isaac Hicks B &a. [monogram] That the accounts of the claimant includes three seperate charges depending for their admission upon distinct or different principles— The 1^st is made on behalf of sundry officers & Soldiers of the Georgia line for Depreciation on their pay— The 2^nd An account of Recruiting a company and contingent expences on their march to join the reg^t. The 3^d [is a] claim for exoneration from accountability [as] [undecipherable] could [undecipherable] of the [H.M.] Gen^l [of] the officers [from] the regiment. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and depreciation [undecipherable] to the 1^st day of [undecipherable] 1800 in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] upon the State— to which the officers and men belonging the United States [undecipherable] and the States mutually [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the settlement— [undecipherable lines] to any allowance, and consequently their claim is legally inadmissible.— The second must also in the opinion of the Commissioner be first settled by the State of Georgia as being an account for the expenditure of money received from her treasury for the recruiting service and expended under a Law of the State which authorised a bounty extra the continental allowance, the Law of the State limiting the time for presentment of claims can hardly be considered [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] account money [for] [undecipherable] of money [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the July quarter of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [her] after, The claimants states that at the reduction of the Seven [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] into the hands of the Enemy and by their [undecipherable] was deprived of the means to account for the sum of twenty two thousand and thirty eight [undecipherable: probable reading, 15/90] Dollars [charge] and that he may receive a [Certificate] for the two thousand Dollars which has been stopped from his pay as an officer in the line on account of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] entered to his debit as [Pay Master] Upon this it may be observed that the certificates of officers who were present and knew of the caption of the papers and the deposition of the Claimant that no part of the money was appropriated to his own use or for private [undecipherable] being the best proof the nature of the [undecipherable] [would] admit, [undecipherable] being obtained [undecipherable lines] All which is [undecipherable] [Respectfully] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]