[Copy] [Jo fn: White dated Sept. 1. 1785 Copied [paraph]] N York. Sept 1^st 1785 Dear Sir Your letter of Aug 26 having come to hand, your sum against [undecipherable] is right, we having credited it to valuation of this Affairs in my letter to you — the Minutes and copy of the minutes are [enclosed] to you — I continue to suppose [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [portion of page obscured/illegible] number, and in case his disgrace to this clearly and that you refer them to this Office, that I may give my best [undecipherable] from higher powers — I do not know how I can properly make out the accounts of the loans, unless I can [particularly?] the charges [undecipherable: mentioned] in my later letters — cannot some means [be fallen] on by you to ascertain these Affairs & ascertain the persons he found who [served?] the money or a list by made out from the [vouchers?] — I think he ought to always [use] the two [O] from [undecipherable] going to all Officers, but [undecipherable] more [undecipherable] distribution in [undecipherable], but I find that there would be far from [oppressed] to — they [earnestly] received much more — to give you an opportunity to [clearly?] your present charges against the laws, I have enclosed you an account from the accounts found in this Office against the [Officers] as [undecipherable] have gone — but this cannot be complete until obtaining the particular information I have requested — the [undecipherable] accounts is not yet absolutely [undecipherable], yet it may give you some assistance — You may depend that it is the intention of the Treasury to grant redress to those Officers who have not received their special pay as intended for them — If you obtain a payment for me, as I expect you [are] [undecipherable] to consider yourself at liberty to retain in your hands your own pay to the time of your [present] appointment, and that of your Clerks so long as [liable?] to be paid in my department, and should you fail, you will make out your accounts for yourself and for your Clerks as far as the commencement of the last quarter and I will endeavour to remit you as much money as will answer your and their necessities — Shall you want any more [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] let me know it in time, to forward it —