Dear Sir Philadelphia May 9. 85 As I shall be much engaged tomorrow morning on private business I have requested M^r Potts to answer yours of the 5^th Ins^t. He will also send you the account of Cap^t. Walton— By Cap^t Milborne I have received Letters from M^r Pierce, and among the rest is one for you, this letter being franked I have sent it, the postscreate in Order to save you money as I find by your last that I over ly pay a visit to the Comm^rs. at Annapolis as well as at Philadelphia. I cannot divine what M^r Dunscomb wants by the Officers of Haylans regiment who received the Certificates of Depreciation &c horhafs he objects that part of that Reg. has rece: the final settlements and wishes to have those belonging to Virginia if this is what he means it cannot be complied with as Pennsylvania has settled for Depreciation for all the Officers Soldiers so finally and I have settled them regimentally & gave Certificates to the Agents of the Line, those Agents are now about settling their accounts with the State. John White Esquire Jos Howell Jun^r. [Received from Auditor for the Interior 11 1803, R.P.O. 4126-54]