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    On this statement the Secretary of War

observed, that the only circumstance which is opposed to granting the prayers of the aforesaid petitions would be a rigid construction of the resolves of the late congress limiting the time for producing Stains against the United States.

    While the Secretary of War is deeply

impressed with the importance of a firm [illegible] generally, to the Resolves of limited [ill] he is inclined to the opinion, that the claims of the afore-mentioned widow & orphans, assured with justice be considered as involved in the before-mentioned Resolves of limitation.

    The resolves of the 2nd of November 1785

and 23rd July 1787, relate to persons leaving in liquidated demands for military service, and for [illegible] in the several staff departments, & in the marine. That they even to produce their claims to the Commission of the United States.

    But the widows, or orphans claiming

pensions were by the arrangement of Congress to to apply to the States to which the deceased Officers belonged. Had the widow or orphan children "of any officer, who died in the service, and who belonged to any individual States applied to Congress in consequence of that