W. D. Accountants Office March 15^th 1794 Sir Inclosed you will receive an abstract for depreciation which appears Still due sundry Officers of the Regiment lately commanded by Col. Seth Warner. it appears by sundry papers therewith that the State of Vermont had settled with those Officers on principles exceedingly injurious to their Interest by only allowing them pay on the establishment in place of that authorized under the act of Congress of the 9^th October 1776. they therefore laid their pretentions to a further allowance before the Comptroller who being of opinion the claim was equitable, he transmitted the papers to me for a revision, which I have now done, but you will observe not on the principles formed on the Statement made by M^r Coleman, for I conceive by adopting his method it would be doing justice only by halves, as the officers would be deprived of their pay from the 1^st Jan^y to 28^th of August 1777. I have therefore admitted their pay from the 1^st Jan^y to the 1^st August 1780, and taken the Scale of Connecticut as my guide for