[Copy of the Account of D^r Nath^l. Lawrence of the N Carolina Line settled at the Treasury precedes the following.] Sir The above is a Copy of M^r Lawrence's Account as settled at the Treasury. Inclosed I send you an Account of sundries Rec^d. by the Officers of the N^o. Carolina Line from the Milpit^t. department, transmitted and by Colonel Carrington since your departure. We expect to move the Office by the 1 May next to New York Jos Howell Jun^r. E Jackson Esq^r. Richmond Feb^y. 24. 85 Dear Sir Yours of the 11^th Instant with the Papers of the Liquor by Cap^t Heard I have received, and entered into a Reexamination upon those whom you were doubtful of the propriety of their charge, and with these find more equally improper. I cannot now give you particulars as the post sets out this morning, and I have not advised with M^r Heard on the remarks made. How could you at all deduct for dead men? A Certificate should issue, and be lodged with the agent for the Merin &c — In some instances you have left them on the Returns, in others, Credited them