Notes for Pay of Continental Officers: Page #2

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Office of Army Accounts Sept. 23d. 1785.

The Commissioner for settling the accounts of the Army to when was referred [illegible] of Bryan Bruin Esquire

Begs leave to report, that a resolution of Congress of the twenty- first of Feby 1783, has recommended to the several states the to whom the officers when from the line to cut in the department of] of the general staff belong, to adjust and discharge on account of the United States the deposition on their extra- for the same manner and to the animations they blank their blank as Officers in the line--which illegible recommendation in the option of your "commissioner, in a sufficient to authority & the state of Virginia for granting the depreciation on the extra pay of the staff officers, taken from the Line of that state and therefore no grants [illegible] recollection is necessary in [crossed out word} the use of Bryan Bruen Esquire.