The report of the Committee appointed to state the amount of the public debts and to estimate the expences of the current year which was agreed to by Congress on the 18th of April last and of which you have been furnished with a copy will give you a general view of the requisitions from the States and on which Congress rely for the operations of the present campaign. But to enable you to judge how far those requisitions are likely to be productive it may not be amiss to state more particularly and analise the several requisitions beginning with that of March 18th 1780. By this act it was intended to draw in the whole two hundred millions old currency which had been emitted and in lieu thereof to issue ten millions of dollars, four millions of which were to be subject to the orders of Congress and applied to the general defence; the remaining six millions were to belong to the several States in proportion to the sums assessed upon each.

   The following table will shew the sums of old money to be brought in by the several States, the sums of new money to be issued in lieu thereof and also the sums of the said new money which the several States were to have received for their own use and the sums reserved for the general defence and which were subject to the orders of Congress.

   Old money to be levied by
the several States by the act
of 18th March 1780 & to be
cancelled

New money to be issued	6/10 be- longing to the State	4/10sub- ject to the orders of Congress
Newhampshire	5,200,000	260,000	156,000	104,000
Massachusetts	29,900,000	1,495,000	897,000	598,000
Rhode Island	2,600,000	130,000	78,000	52,000
Connecticut	22,100,000	1,105,000	663, 000	442,000
New York	9,750 000	487,500	292,500	195,000
New Jersey	11,700,000	585,000	351,000	234,000
Pensylvania	29,900,000	1,495,000	897,000	598,000
Delaware	2,210,000	110,500	66,300	44,200
Maryland	20,540,000	1,027,000	616,200	410,800
Virginia	32,500,000	1,625,000	975,000	650,000
North Carolina	13,000,000	650,000	390,000	260,000
South Carolina	15,600,000	780,000	468,000	312,000
	195,000,000	9,750,000	5,850,000	3,900,000

   But as South Carolina from the invasion of the enemy has not had it in its power to take any measures for complying with this act, its quota ought to be deducted

   

viz.	15,600,000	780,000	468,000	312,000
	179,400,000	8,970,000	5,382,000	3,588,000

   Hence it appears that until there are farther measures devised for calling it in, there will remain of the old money in circulation the sum of 20,600,000, And that the United States can only calculate upon 3,588,000 dollars of the new emission. If North Carolina should also fail and there is but too much reason to fear it will, then there will remain of the old money in circulation the sum of 33,600,000, and there will only be emitted of the new money the sum of 8,320,000 of which 3,328,000, only will be subject to the orders of the United States. New York from its sufferings and situation will stand in need of some assistance and indulgence. It has made application to Congress for leave to apply the 4/10 arising from its quota, to the discharge of the debts due to its inhabitants for

   

Commissioners of loan Office for States.	Amount of the 4/10 subject to orders of Congress	Amount of warrants drawn.	Balance due
Nichs. Gilman Newhampshire	104,000	53,144 60/90	50,855 30/90
Nathl Appleton Massachusetts	598,000	437,595 61/90	160,404 29/90
Joseph Clarke Rhode Island	52,000	47,863	4,137
Willm. Imlay Connecticut	442,000	185,433 31/90	256,566 59/90
Abram. Yates New York	195,000	103,659 8/90	91,340 82/90
Joseph Borden New Jersey	234,000	153,877 73/90	80,122 17/90
Thomas Smith Pensylvania	598,000	459,286 77/90	138,713 13/90
Samuel Patterson Delaware	44,200	27,099	17,101
Thomas Harwood Maryland	410,800	225,273 73/90	185,526 17/90
John Hopkins Virginia	650,000	264,017 30/90	385,982 60/90
	3,328,000	1,957,250 53/90	1,370,749 37/90

   On the 26 August 1780 it was earnestly recommended to the States to take the most speedy and effectual measures for drawing in their respective quotas of the continental bills to be destroyed that the new money might be issued; and the several States were called upon for a new tax of Three Millions of dollars payable in bills emitted pursuant to the act of the 18th of March 1780 or in specie, and to pay the same into the continental treasury as soon as possible, the payment to be compleated by the last day of December 1780. The

   

Newhampshire	80,000
Massachusetts	460,000
Rhode Island &c.	40,000
Connecticut	340,000
New York	150,000
New Jersey	180,000
Pensylvania	460,000
Delaware	34,000
Maryland	316,000
Virginia	500,000
North Carolina	200,000
South Carolina	240,000
	3,000,000

   Georgia being invaded was excused for the present.

   From the situation of affairs in North Carolina and South Carolina I am apprehensive no reliance is to be placed on their quotas.

   The following is a state of this account according to the returns from the board of treasury dated 4th June 1781.

   

		Sums drawn for or allowed	balance due
New Hampshire	80,000		80,000
Massachusetts	460,000	224 63/90	459,775 27/90
Rhode Island	40,000		40,000
Connecticut	340,000		340,000
New York	150,000	18,825	131,175
New Jersey	180,000	5,149	174,851
Pensylvania	460,000	13,740	446,260
Delaware	34,000		34,000
Maryland	316,000		316,000
Virginia	500,000	1,200	498,800
North Carolina	200,000		200,000
South Carolina	240,000		240,000
	3,000,000	39,138 63/90	2,960,861 27/90

   But if the quotas of North and South Carolina are deducted from this balance then there will only remain 2,520,86127/so and of this sum I am inclined to think some of the States have applied a part towards the payment of interest due on loan office certificates and some other of the States will have charges to make for forwarding or transporting provisions agreeable to the recommendation of the 14th May last and possibly for some other services performed. Of these no account is yet rendered.

   On the 4th of Novr. 1780 the States were called upon to levy in the proportions hereafter mentioned a tax equal in value to six millions of silver dollars to be paid partly in specific articles at prices therein fixed and partly in gold or silver or bills emitted pursuant to the act of 18th of March 1780 viz.

   

	In specific supplies.	In money	Whole amount
Newhampshire	120,290	47,623	173,913
Massachusetts	726,168 1/3	273,831 2/3	1,000,000
Rhode Island &c	63,159 1/3	23,797 2/3	86,957
Connecticut	536,730 2/3	202,399 1/3	739,130
New York	236,792	89,295	326,087
New Jersey	284,152	107,152	391,304
Pensylvania	726,167 1/3	273,832 2/3	1,000,000
Delaware	53,672 1/3	20,240 2/3	73,913
Maryland	498,845 1/3	188,111 2/3	686,957
Virginia	789,312	297,645	1,086,957
North Carolina	315,723	119,060	434,783
Total.	4,357,012 1/3	1,642,987 2/3	6,000,000

   This requisition being for the service of the year 1781, the States were called on to furnish the articles required in given quantities in January, March, May and July and to pay the money called for in four quarterly payments, the first payment to be made on the first day of May 1781.

   What proportion of the articles are furnished I cannot say as the Commissary general has made no returns, But from the return of the board of treasury of the 4th of June 1781 it appears that no payments in money have been made by any of the States, consequently the whole sum of 1,642,987 2/3 remains due, one quarter part of which viz, 410,746 82/90 being payable the first of May last ought to be called for.

   On the 8 January 1781 As our prisoners in the power of the enemy were suffering for want of necessaries Congress called upon the States from Newhampshire to North Carolina inclusive to procure and forward to the treasurer of the United States or to the Commissary of prisoners appointed to reside at New York by the first day of March 1781 for the use of the Officers in captivity at that

   

Newhampshire	2,319
Massachusetts	13,334
Rhode Island	1,160
Connecticut	9,855
New York	4,347
New Jersey	5,217
Pensylvania	13,334
Delaware	987
Maryland	9,159
Virginia	14,492
North Carolina	5,797

   Amounting in the whole to 80,000 dollars. No part of this has been paid into the continental treasury. Whether any part has been transmitted to the Commissary of prisoners at New York I cannot undertake to say. But this matter should be enquired into.

   On the 15th of January 1781 the States from Newhampshire to Pensylvania both inclusive were called upon for their respective quotas of 879,342 dollars for the immediate pay of arrears due to the Army.

   But by a letter I have this day received from the board of treasury I find that warrants were drawn for that sum on the Commissioners of the loan offices of those States and that it was paid out of the 4/10 reserved for the use of Congress, and consequently has no effect on the requisitions from the States.

   On the 16th March last the States were called upon for a farther sum of six millions of dollars to be paid quarterly. The first quarterly payment amounting to one million five hundred thousand dollars to be made on the first day of June.

   The quota of each State was fixed as follows

   

Newhampshire	46,080 3/4	The four qu[arterl]y paymts	184,323
Massachusetts	264,965 3/4	................	1,059,863
Rhode Island	29,146 1/4	................	116,585
Connecticut	195,844 1/4	................	783,377
New York	43,200 3/4	................	172,803
New Jersey	103,682	................	414,728
Pensylvania	264,965 3/4	................	1,059,863
Delaware	24,480 1/4	................	97,921
Maryland	182,026 3/4	................	728,107
Virginia	288,006 1/2	................	1,152,026
North Carolina	57,601	................	230,404
Total	1,500,000		6,000,000

   It is to be observed that the sums assessed are not to be considered as the just proportion of any State, but being paid into the treasury are to be placed to their respective credits and to bear an interest of six per cent per annum from the time of payment until the quotas shall be finally ascertained agreeably to the articles of the confederation; and if it shall then appear that any State is assessed more than its just quota of the taxes called for it shall continue to receive interest on the surplus and if less it shall be charged with the interest on the deficiency until by a future tax such surplus or deficiency shall be adjusted.

   It may be proper to observe that on the 25th of Feby. 1780 when Congress called for specific supplies from the States they had in contemplation the raising certain articles to be shipped to Europe in order to discharge some debts due in the West Indies, to provide a fund for defraying the expences of their Ministers at foreign Courts and for paying the interest of money borrowed abroad and therefore among the specific articles Maryland was called on for 1000 hhds Tobacco and Virginia for 6000. By a letter from the Governor of Virginia sometime last fall it appears that measures were taken by that State for providing the quantity required. But as nothing has ever been done in that matter the whole 7000 hhds remain and may be applied to such purposes as you judge proper.

   The above is the best account I can give you of the several requisitions of money and supplies from the States and I hope they are stated with such precision as will enable you to call upon the States and to press a compliance with the said requisitions.

   I am, Sir, your Obedient humble Servt, Cha Thomson.