Sir, Office of Secretary of Cong. May 31 [1785]
I have the honor to transmit to your Exy two Acts of the US in C[ongress] ass[emble]d, one passed the 3 Novr 1783 direct[in]g the paymaster genl to deposit in the hands of regimental agents the certificates for the arrears of pay due to the officers & soldiers of the respective lines of the late Army to be by them delivered to the individuals or deposited for their benefit as the supreme executive of their respective states shall direct.(1) The other passed the 27 of the present Month requesting the legislature of the respective States to cause the services of the sd Agents to be examined & to make them such allowance as they shall think them entitled to.(2) Your excellency will be pleased to lay these before the legislature of your state and communicate to me their determination, that I may report the same to Congress.
With great Respect, I have the honor to be, Your Excellency's Most Obedt & Most humble Servt(3)

LB (DNA: PCC, item 18A). Addressed: "To his Excellency of each of the States."
1 See JCC, 25:800--;801.
2 JCC, 28:399.
3 At the foot of this letter Thomson wrote: "In the letter to So Carolina add: I have also the pleasure of enclosing you an Act of the 26 [JCC, 28:395--;96] for supplying you with 12 p[ieces] of Ordinance a copy of which I have sent to the Secy at War." And he continued: "Begin the letter to Massachusetts thus. Sir, I have received the letter which your Excellency did me the honor to write on the 20 in answer to me of the 18 & 28 of March & the 15 of April last."

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