[Nehemiah Freeman Rec'd 16^th December Ans'd same day See letter of the 18. Dec^r] Answers to M^r Freeman's Questions. 1. The giving of his receipts which he transmits with reasonable caution to M^r Fish will not render him responsible for the money which the latter in consequence thereof remits to M^r Freeman by [strikethrough: the persons of acknowledged reputation] or the Council of Administration whom M^r Freeman shall employ to be the bearer — until he actually receit it. 2. Such men of the corps as have been discharged for their infirmities contracted prior to their enlistments, should not be paid the arrears of bounty: the public have already suffered enough by their deception, by which without rendering any equivalent they have received pay, cloathing & part of the bounty. But such men as have been discharged purely for infirmities contracted subsequent to their enlisting, and who at the time were not upward of forty [strikethrough: five] years of age, have doubtless a just title to the residue of their bounty money. War Office Dec^r 18. 95 T Pickering