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The Standing Committee of the Society of the Cincinnati of this state having a Report of the state of the Treasury before them together with a list of Deficiencies due from the respective members, find you in arrear as the Inclosed [sic] account. The Committee do therefore most earnestly request you immediately to discharge the said ballance [sic], the honor of the Society being deeply interested in the discharge of subsisting demands, we trust your sense of honor in Joining this institution will induce you to comply with this Reasonable and necessary Request without further delay. 

Document signed by: Colonel Jeremiah Olney (1749-1812), a founding member, treasurer president of the Rhode Island chapter. -- Colonel Ephraim Bowen Jr. (1753-1841), vice president of the Rhode Island chapter. -- Reverend Enos Hitchcock (1745-1803), a member of the Rhode Island chapter. -- William Allen [possibly Captain William Henry Allen (1784-1813)]. -- And Thomas Smart.