[To the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Congress May 23 W[undecipherable] 1 [undecipherable]] New York September 23^rd 1785 Gentlemen — Congress having directed that the regimental agents should settle the accounts of the issues of the final Settlement Securities for the arrears due the army, with the Supreme executive of the State to whom they respectively belong, which will make it proper that a copy of the register of these Certificates be sent to the states, as a check to the accounts of the agents. It being found necessary also that a compleat copy of this register be lodged with the Comptroller for the purpose of checking the Certificates brought in to be funded in his Office — and some of the members of Congress having informed me that it will become necessary that a copy also be furnished the Loan Office of each State as a guide to him in his payment of the interest on these securities — which will require at least fifteen copies [more than] for these different purposes — and will if written takes more than thirty clerks for one year to compleat them, — I have therefore taken measures (by receiving proposals from the printers) to ascertain the exact sum it will cost to print these copies of my register, and find that I can obtain twenty setts printed for eleven hundred dollars, which will take one half less paper than to have them written, and will cost the public little more than writing only one sett — I beg leave therefore to submit to the consideration of the board the propriety of printing, instead of writing, the copies which will thus be wanted and that I may receive directions accordingly — The Honorable the Board of Treasury