I do myself the honor to request that you will be pleased to make out accurate estimates for your Department during the year 1783, that I may form those general estimates for the service, which it is my duty to lay before the United States in Congress. I am, with perfect esteem and respect, &c. ROBERT MORRIS. * * * * * ROBERT MORRIS TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. Office of Finance, June 20th, 1782. Sir, The copy of a Memorial from the Minister of France, of the 25th of last month, which you handed me, has been laid before the Controller of the treasury, who has examined the resolutions of Congress, and reported to me. I am now, therefore, to observe, that if the gentlemen mentioned in that Memorial, or their representatives, have any claims against the United States, they must form accounts thereof, and state them in the usual manner to the Controller of the treasury, with the vouchers, who will cause them to be examined, according to the rules and regulations in that behalf established, and any balances which may appear due will be by him certified to me, at which time, and not before, I can decide on the subject. I have the honor to be, &c. ROBERT MORRIS. * * * * * THE GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. North Carolina, June 24th, 1782. Sir, Your letters of the 18th and 19th of February, covered the resolutions of Congress, dated November 28th, January 25th, and February 11th, I was favored with in May last, which I did myself the honor to lay before the General Assembly. The important observations you are pleased to make relative to our affairs, our friends, allies, and enemies, have their just weight, which the Legislature are very sensible of. To be prepared, therefore, for whatever measures the enemy may take, they have passed a law to draft every twentieth man in the State, to serve in our Continental battalions eighteen months; as enlistments during the war cannot be obtained in this State, so as to answer any general purpose. I flatter myself, we shall have a respectable body of men soon in the field, under Major General Greene. In August they are to rendezvous. One hundred wagons, for the Continental service, the State is also to furnish, in lieu of one hundred men. I have given directions for the damages, which the inhabitants of this State have received from the British, to be ascertained as nearly as may be, agreeably to your request.