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and pay If my papers should be correct, and the State Agent so minded I could get my money in two or three months, but in case of any mistake in my Discriptive Roll or negligence on the part of the agent the papers then would have to be forwarded to Washington and I should then be kept out of my money for six or eaven nine months, and prehaps in the end have to hire an agent to collect for me which would cost prehaps twenty or thirty dollars. I am told that when a person is once out of the service the authorities at Washington take very little interest in hurrying up his papers so as to let him have his pay as there is so many others to be mustered out, which must be done. And when a Soldier is