impositions practised on this State in the settlement of Depreciation Accounts, & which gives me an Opportunity to do justice to the United States by deducting it from the Arrears due those individuals on the present settlement — The same principle renders the Muster of the four Maryland Companies of the German Regiment necessary, as the Auditor proposes to request a suspension of the Judgment of those Certificates at the Treasury until by the help of the above mentioned Musters he can ascertain their Validity — I have therefore to request you will be so kind as to send them forward. Jos Howell Jun^r Ja: White ACom: Philadelphia March 9. 85 Sir Your several favors of the 14. 28. & 4^th Ult^o came to hand on thursday last — The Rolls of [undecipherable] Reg^t Villeneuve were taken by M^r Dunscomb with those the Virginia Lines, as I cannot lay my hands on them here, you will therefore please to apply to him — it appears by the Account of Cap^t Harwoods that the expenditures were chiefly for the recruiting service, as those Accounts are not connected with any others I would advise you to have this Account dissected and drawn agreeably to the form herewith sent which was the first adopted by Congress by which means the Bounty and