The Commissioners of Army Accounts upon the Petition of Doctor Timothy Hemmer referred to him by the Secretary of War [undecipherable] Report. That it appears from the records & returns of officers of the [strikethrough: Hosp] Military Hospital in the Eastern Department that the Petitioner was appointed a Jun' Surgeon on the 12 d Aug' 1777 and acted as such untill the 4^th July 1779 when he was transfer'd as Surgeon to the 6 Regiment of Connecticut and in this capacity continued untill [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] Jan. That the State of Connecticut in the Settlement of the account of the Petitioner for Depreciation on his pay commences his credit from the time of his entering the regiment without respect or regard to his services while in the Department of the general hospital. The denial of payment for this Service appears to have arose from a strict adherence to the Laws [undecipherable] of the State which govern the settlement [undecipherable] by this act 'twas acquird that the officer should be in actual service in that department on the 1^st January 1780. and the Petitioner having been transferrd to the Line previous to that date he was not by literal construction of the Law an object of its benefits. But the Commissioners is of opinion that this was by no means an equitable [undecipherable] interpretation of the Law and [undecipherable] appears to have an undoubted right to a Settlement of his account for the time he acted as Surgeon to the hospital and to a Certificate for the balance which may appear due to him upon such Settlement [To the Sec'y of War 11 Jun's 1790 Carr Petition Tim: Hemmer [undecipherable]]