The Commissioner of Army Accounts upon the Petition of Ichabod Turner referr'd to him by the Secretary at War respectfully Reports— That the prayer of the Petitioner is a compensation for sundry soldiers of the late line of Connecticut who were employed as artificers upon redoubts & Fortifications by order of Gen^l Heath, and for his own Service as a Superintendent of their Work. That Congress did on the 2^nd October 1776 resolve that one sixth part of a dollar over and above their soldiers pay be allowed to such persons as are necessarily draughted for quartermasters uses— That in the opinion of the Commissioner the claim of the Petitioner to an allowance is incontrovertable but the quantum or extent of that allowance is a question of some controversy It appears that a Settlement of his account has been made by the then Auditor at Camp and an order given upon the Pay Master for the amount but not paid— this Settlement appears to have contempla-