[A] Aldvan D. Orr, Esq^r. Department of W[undecipherable] Accountants' [undecipherable] Sir March 17^th [undecipherable] I have examined the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] musters of Col^o Harrison's Regiment of Artillery and c[undecipherable] find the Name of Edmund Brooke entered on eith[undecipherable] or that any person of that Name ever served as an Off[undecipherable] that Regiment, if it should hereafter appear that [undecipherable] Brooke has a claim for services, no claim having [undecipherable] [undecipherable] agreeably to the acts of Congress the same would now be deemed barred and foreclosed from settlement. — I am Sir Y^r [undecipherable] — William Simmons