[Copy] Philadelphia Octo 1. 1784 Sir On [strikethrough: consideration of the arguments and] examination [strikethrough: claims] you have made [strikethrough: to] me on the United States for an allowance for of your services as a Lieut. Colonel in the New Jersey Line — I find that the old Emission your pay in [strikethrough: has been regularly paid you] regimental Paper has been regularly paid you up to the [strikethrough: first] day July 1779 time of your appointment as Chief Justice of the State — This appointment [strikethrough: being] as you represent being on the 10^th of June 1779 and soon after accepted by you, leads me to doubt your [strikethrough: further] continuance in the service of the after that time [strikethrough: United States,] and therefore [strikethrough: debars] may a further allowance — The reasons for my doubts are, that Congress on the 16. of April 1781, in [strikethrough: an] answer to a letter from Governor Jefferson, (which seems to be a like case) [strikethrough: have] declared that it is incompatible with the rules established by [strikethrough: the United States in Congress Assembled for] them Colonel Davis to receive a civil appointment while he retains his rank in the Army — and that Congress on [strikethrough: their] your own application [strikethrough: their] [strikethrough: Kennedy] referring to be continued in rank only without pay, did on the 22^d of July 1779 resolve that his [strikethrough: their] request could not be complied with — From these violations, [strikethrough: for] I am obliged to suppose that when you accepted this appoint ment you were considered by Congress as out of the Service — and therefore that [strikethrough: no] certainly [strikethrough: no] any [undecipherable] derangements or resignation [strikethrough: was unnecessary] [strikethrough: plain:] I presume Congress have not considered a civil appointment under a State in the same light [strikethrough: as a resignation] immediately as one renders [strikethrough: themselves,] that is a supersedes of all others — I am Sir Your Obedt Servant