I cannot but hope the notes will soon arrive & that the settlement of accounts may be compleated by the assistance of the Pay Masters in a very few days. In the mean time I shall have the honor of laying the sentiments of the Generals & Officers commanding regiments & Corps before Congress. They are expressed in such a decent, candid & affecting manner that I am certain every mark of attention will be paid to them.

Sir, Inclose You Copy of a Letter, I this day rec'd from the President of Congress, pressing an immediate representation of this State.

It gives me pain to mention that the State has been without a Representation ever since the first of May and that Colo. Hamilton the only Member now attending has signified to me his Intention of leaving Philadelphia, he having served the Time agreed upon for his Attendance there in the first Instance.

It is the Business of the Delegates to make such Arrangements among themselves as to prevent the State being unrepresented, as I can have no agency therein but barely that of informing You of what ought not to have taken place.

I would only observe that the Want of Money cannot be given in Excuse for Non Attendance, as I have, for this month past, stood ready to advance to the Gentlemen who were to relieve the

late attend'g Members as I am authorized by the Law passed the last session.

I have the Honor to be, with respect, & Esteem, Sir, Your Obed. Servt.

The Honble. John Morin Scott, Esquire

The Honble. James Duane, Esquire &

The Honble. Ezra L'Hommedieu Esquire.

[No. 5089.]

George Clinton.

Sir Guy Carleton to Governor Clinton as to Inquiries He is Making about Sundry Facts.

New York, 10th June, 1783.

Sir, I address your Excellency in the present Moment only to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 28th of May, reserving an Answer 'till such Time as I shall be acquainted with the Result of those Enquiries, I have caused to be made, relative to sum of the Facts stated by your Excellency, and in the mean time, am sensible of, and obliged by, the Civility and Politness of your letter.

I am, Sir, your &c &c

His Excell'y Gov'r. Clinton.

[No. 5096.]

G. Carleton.

A British Order for the Restoration of Property to Proprietors in Southern New York.

Head Quarters, New York, 16th June, 1783

ORDERS

The proprietors of houses or land lately evacuated, will apply to Lieut. General Campbell for the possession of those on Long Island; to Brig'r General Birch for those on New York Island;

and to Brigadier General Bruce for those on Staten Island; these General Officers will be pleased to cause all such Estates to be immediately delivered to the proprietors, or to their attornies, unless where they may see sufficient reasons for retaining them some time longer, which reasons they will report to the Commander in Chief. In like manner all Estates which shall hereafter be Evacuated, are to be surrendered up to the proprietors. 01: DeLancey, Adjt. General.

[No. 5097.]

Favorable Report from the Finance Department - The Administration of Robert Morris Warmly Commended.

By the United States in Congress Assembled

June 17th, 1783.

Congress took into consideration the report of the Committee appointed to enquire fully into the proceedings of the Office of Finance and the same being read

Ordered, That it be entered on the Journal, as follows:

The Committee appointed to examine into the transactions of the Office of Finance having compleated that enquiry to the 1st January 1783 report: That it appears to them the business of that office has been conducted with great ability and assiduity in a manner highly advantageous to the United States and in conformity with the system laid down by Congress.

In the course of this enquiry the Committee have found that since the appointment of the Superintendent of Finance, the public Accounts of receipts and expenditures have been regularly and punctually kept; that many of the Accounts which preceded this institution have already been settled and most of the others put into a train of adjustment.

That all the Persons who have entrusted with public Money under the present appointment have been regularly called upon for an account of it's expenditure, and that their Accounts have all been furnished, excepting only the Quarter Master General, the Surveyor of the Hospital, the late Commissary General of Prisoners and the Accounts of issues of Cloathing from the Cloathier General. The reasons which have prevented the settlement of their accounts will appear in their correspondence with the Superintendent on that subject.

The Committee find by the correspondence of the office that the States have all been called upon for an Account of the Specifics by them respectively supplied for the use of the Continent; but that no answers have yet been given nor any accounts furnished. And that a number of People who have heretofore been entrusted with public money do still neglect or refuse to settle their accounts and that for want of laws in the several States, the superintendant has it not in his power to compel them to a proper settlement.

In examining the reforms which have been made in the public expenditures, the attention of the Committee was necessarily called to the expenditures of former years, for the particulars of which they refer to the papers C No. 1 to 7. In comparing these expenditures with the present and making every allowance for the difference of times and circumstances, the Committee are of opinion that the order and Oeconomy which has been introduced since the establishment of this office has been attended with great savings of public Money, as well as many other beneficial Consequences.

Among other reforms they find, that in the Department of Commissary of Issues, no less than two hundred and fifty persons

were discharged whose Pay (exclusive of Rations for themselves and their Horses) amounted to 126,300 Dollars per annum. That in one instance a demand was made for one thousand Tons of Hay; for the Post of Philadelphia of which Ten Tons only were granted, the residue being rendered unnecessary by the new arrangement.

They find that under the present administration, the whole Sum which has been brought into the public Treasury from the 14th day of May 1781, to the 1st of January 1783 amounts to: Dollars 2,726,334

That the whole expenditure for that Period amounts to 3,131,046 Out of which has been paid to the Army

439,574

That there was expended for Rations for the Army in

That the expenditures in 1782 exceeded the Receipts, 404,713 dollars which was supplied by a circulation in the Notes of the Superintendant of Finance.

Upon comparing the accounts of the public Receipts and expenditures (exhibited to Congress) with the Books of the Treas ury, they found that they had been fairly and Regularly stated, and it appears to them that the Business of that Office is conducted with great diligence and accuracy, and in conformity with the rules laid down by Congress.

With respect to the foreign Money transactions, the Committee confined their enquiry particularly to what respected the Superintendant of Finance and find that the Bills of Exchange which he has drawn is duly credited at the Treasury.