as they propose to settle the accounts of General Warren and will want your assistance - this business they inform me will not be entered on for some time, at present they have nothing particular for your Inspection. I wrote you on the 25 and 30^th ultimo and sent the letters with their enclosures, directed to be left at the post office in Hartford, which I hope you have Rec^d. Inclosed are two letters one private which I have read, the other from M^r Duncombe which I think proper to forward to you, as I think myself not authorised to answer — In consequence of M^r Eden and Son's letter I have wrote them, a copy of which is enclosed — I am &c John Pierce Esq^r Jos. Howell [seal] Gentlemen New York December 7^th 1785 Your favor of the 30^th ultimo was received this day. M^r Pierce being absent the business of the office is Committed to my care this I thought me duty to mention in order to inform you that it was not M^r Pierces Intention to publish the act of Congress limiting the claims of the army in every newspaper whereby the United States would have to account for such publication but left to the discretion of those printers who published a news paper, not doubting they would oblige the public and a number of their Subscribers