Sir I rec^d your favor by M^r Coventry with the enclos'd from M^r Loss, You & M^r Loss must have both misapprehended my application — the Com^rs which I mentioned are appointed by this State to settle on accounts for a Certain time and require a Certificate from you that we have rec^d no pay for that time from you, or to Certify what sums any Monies you may have p^d in that time. It has no relation to our general Settlement, it may come into how much or how little we may have rec^d in that years or how much we have to receive — It is a simple Question requiring no more than yes or no for an answer, but I can not suppose that a public Officer can have a scruple in answering a Letter while a Law of this State requires the Com^rs so to ask — The Commissioners will sit again in September & I Shall be much obliged to you — the fore said such a