Dignity is not Confered as it is upon the Right Honorable Legislators of a Sovereign State,--For your Solicittors at Congress have 10,000 pounds Granted them if need be Last Court Iam told your officers & Soldiers your Commissiariés & all specially Employed in business of the State are payd their whole Expence your Carters & waggoners and all others And it is the universal Practice of this and all other States to pay in full for ye Expence time &c and why I should: be Exempted I know not so Contrary to all Custom in such Cases as I served this State in--wherefore I most humbly pray a reconsideration of my acecompt on your files and that I be payed: one Dollar & one halfe pr Day of the Spanish kind & my Horse Hire as in my account charged which was Esteemed a moderate price: then by your Excellencys own mouth to me and others & if Iam payd in Continental I Humbly pray for an Equitable Equation as things now are valued in merchandizes Land production &¢ who am Sir your Excellencys & the Honorable Legislatures most Humble &. obedt. Servant and Ever true Loyal Subject at Command. Cuarues) Puetps.

To His Excellency Governor Clinton and the Honorable Legislature of the State of New York is most Humbly presented this my second adress in the premises Hoping the prayer thereof be fully Granted. C. Puewps.

(Endorsed) Read in Assemy. Feby. 14t2 1780 and Committed to Mess's Palmer Vrooman & Day. :