[vol x / no 81] [To H] C. Off Apr. 13. 1792 I take the liberty to request that the opinion of the Attorney General of the United States, may be [undecipherable: probable reading "obtained"] on the following questions which have arisen respecting the construction of an Act pass'd during the present [Session] [undecipherable: probable reading "Intituled"] "an Act providing for the [undecipherable] of the claims of persons under particular circumstances now barred [by] the limitations heretofore established." Whether the provisions of said Act will justify the Officers of the Treasury in admitting any of those military claims, then, those of Officers & Soldiers of the Battalions raised to serve for three years or during the late War — And in case those claims are admissible, to what description of claims the Act is to be construed to extend. Commutation, mileage, forage, Clothing, or in- [undecipherable] Whether claims for bounty for inlisting into the service, the gratuities granted to [undecipherable: probable reading "public"] Soldiers as should be continue in service to the end of the War, the allow ance ^yes of one day to [undecipherable] discharged Soldiers, commutation in lieu of half pay for life — the allow ances for mileage, forage or Clothing — [undecipherable] can be admitted as being included in the descriptions of claims for personal [undecipherable: probable reading "provisions"] [undecipherable signature] Hon. A. H— Esq.