Armand, and if the Paymasters or agents are fixed at Certain places, or the Certificates deposited at them. I think it would be best to have all of a State delivered into the hands of the respective Com[missioners] that the owners might have them without riding to your State, or farther. I write for the Resolves of Congress, I beg your assistance in procuring them for me, as soon as possible, from Philadelphia As soon as Cap^t Smithall comes to Town I will give him the Certificates of Col. Febiger, as mentioned in his letter to me, and you will have them by following [post]. Jos Howell Jun^r And^w Dunscomb Richmond March 4, 1785 Dear Sir I have issued Certificates agreeable to the accompanying General and Particular Accounts Current, and as a bar to any improper allowance, have retained a number of Certificates in hands, agreeable to a list furnished Cap^t Heard. As to Roth[undecipherable] pay he cannot claim more than Dear Sir Philad^a 5 March 1785 Inclosed are duplicates of mine of the 18^th & 31 Jan^y since which two more Certificates have been produced by M^r Hodgdon of the same description as those already mentioned by the Gen[eral —] Gentlemen of the Office suspect one who they saw is now confined for Debt in New York Goal, the Name of the person they are unwilling to give me. I beg your directions in what manner to proceed to detect those Villains. Congress have Ordered the several Departments under their Notice to be at New York on or before the first of May next. M^r Charleton has already gone & M^r Little[?] gone goes over — M^r [undecipherable] has not as yet received Orders tho he may reasonably expect them. I flatter myself it will not be necessary to move my Office far in that case it will much derange my Affairs. Inclosed is a Copy of a memorial of Cap^t Wyley and I am in Consultation with a resolve of Congress referring the same to you — I heartily wish you may finish your business to the Southward early and be with us the first of May. M^r De Witt left us the 1^st of Feb^y last being called home by his uncle, since which I have employed M^r [undecipherable] formerly a Clerk to M^r [undecipherable] who also a Brother in law of mine, the former a post M^r Betts & the latter is arranging the [undecipherable]. Jonⁿ Pierce Esq^r Jos Howell Jun^r