& tho before it arrived many had Settled with the State and myself for all due, at any rate you will enquire the Officer out and inform him that this State has Settled for depreciation &c to those of the Regiment that were citizens of it, consequently he must obtain all those in his hands → O3 Though M^r Dunscomb does not mention the particular period to which Virginia has Settled with the above men, Sometime it must be to Jan^y 1. 1782 as their depreciation Settlements extend to that time, or in other words they have found the payment of their line on Account of the United States up to that period — Joseph Howell Jun^r John White Dear Howell Annapolis May 3. 83 I did not receive your favor of the 11^th of April, until the last of May — it had been laying in the post Office, it seems some Days before I had notice of its be- ing there. I thank you for your exertions in the business it treated of but I must beg leave to observe, that you do not seem to have entered into the spirit of the enquiry. Bunner, as he avows the signature of the Discharge Transmitted to you, will hardly