[Illegible Text notice — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically.] [Lawrence Manning's Memorial 30^th March 1792. Ordered to lie on the table. 5 1^st Con^s 2^d [undecipherable] (to lie) 25] To the Honorob^le the Speaker and the Members of the House of Representatives. The Memorial of Lawrence Manning late a [undecipherable] in the Continental [undecipherable] Army humbly [sheweth] that your Memorialist [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] that as the [year?] [undecipherable] he was [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [company?] or [unit?] in [undecipherable] from in [undecipherable] in common with the [undecipherable] [served?] in [the?] [campaign?] or some other service and the [undecipherable] with [schedules?] and [so?] much he never [undecipherable] to be [present?] [undecipherable] [he sought?] some [relief?] from the [store?] of [John?] [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] to [two?] Months [undecipherable] that [there?] a [undecipherable] [consulted?] [undecipherable] on the [interior?] [part?] of S[outh] Carolina was [undecipherable] by his situation to want of money to bear his [expenses?] and by the [undecipherable: disappointed?] [undecipherable] of times [undecipherable] from [various?] [General?] to all [undecipherable] to [apply?] [undecipherable] his pay and Emoluments that in [application?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] thanks to him as [undecipherable] that M^r [undecipherable] times [undecipherable] without any [undecipherable] authority in [undecipherable] from there [undecipherable] [undecipherable] turned from M^r [undecipherable] a Military Commission [undecipherable] for your Petitioners Commission Your Memorialist having [applied?] [undecipherable] the further [offices?] for his last [undecipherable] is told that he can have no [relief?] [undecipherable] by Special [Sales?] of Congress [undecipherable] Memorialist therefore from your honorable [Body?] for that relief that his [undecipherable] [himself?] to be most[ly?] entitled to [undecipherable] and in duty bound will ever pray Lawrence Manning [mark] Extracts from Acts of Congress. Vol. 9 Page 6 date 3^d November 1783 — Resolved, That the Paymaster General deposit in the hands of regimental Agents, the certificates for the arrears of pay due to the Officers and soldiers of the respective lines to be by them delivered to the individuals to whom they belong, or deposited for their benefit as the Supreme executive of the State to which the respective agents belong, shall direct. Vol. 10 Page 19^th & 87 — Agents allowed Compensation and to deposit the Certificates not [undecipherable] with the Supreme Executives of the State to which they belong. Vol. 10 Page 23 — Claims barred unless presented for [undecipherable: Registration?] in a certain time. Vol. 10 Page 366 — All claims for Services in the Military Departments barred if not presented for Settlement prior to 1^st August 1786 — [undecipherable] Act of Congress of 2^d [undecipherable] 1785 [undecipherable] N^o 12 Page 14 — Claims of every description barred — [undecipherable] of 23^d July 97 unless presented for settlements within one year after said date. N^o 2 — Page 31 — date 27 March 92 — Claims barred if not presented for Settlement prior to 27 March 1794 —