N: York July 19 1785 Sir I have applied to the Secretary Board in respect to the requests contained in your letter of the 16^th Ult: and have their directions not to permit to any of any Magistrate to be taken, for the reasons that it will give an indiscrete an advantage over the only of this community and will there[undecipherable] to be check in behalf of the public — I am sorry that it is not in my power to comply with your request as I have the disposition to oblige you — and am Sir Your Obed^t serv^t [Copy Yon^t to the Commission?]