[Report] The commissioner, for settling the account of the late army begs leave to report on the petition of Israel Putnam late a major general in the Service That general Putnam when commanding in the middle department gave his note of hand payable on demand to the deputy pay master of that division, for the sum of three thousand dollars, "borrowed of him in order to advance to major Romans, captain Allan "and Lieut. Day for the use of their returning the bounty for the "british deserters which are drawn from this division into the "georgia service by order of his excellency general Washington" That the deputy pay master produced this obligation as his voucher for the payment of so much money, which was passed in the settlement of his accounts to his credit and carried to the debt of general Putnam. That the sum of six hundred & twenty dollars of this money has been returned by the georgia officers into the military chest for which general Putnam has a credit and now [stands] charged with the ballance amounting to two thousand three hundred & eighty dollars. That the general, in order to discharge himself from this ballance, has produced a note of hand given to himself of the same date and for the same sum with his to the deputy pay master and signed by the officers mentioned in that obligation, in which note of hand are the following words, "which we have borrowed "of him in behalf of the delegates from the State of Georgia "or the use of paying the bounty for the british deserters, which "we have taken out of the division under his command by order "of his excellency general Washington" That your commissioner, having considered the circumstances of this transaction, is of opinion that the general has, by giving his own obligation become responsible for the return of the money to the United States, or to procure such vouchers as will make