New York January 9 1786 [marginalia: N York Jan.^ry 1786 / to [undecipherable] / [Copied]] Dear Sir While I was in Connecticut on the 12^th Ult^o I wrote you requesting, a a further continuance of your business, under no [undecipherable] not [be] permitted that you would [undecipherable] the delay [undecipherable] accounts and transmit them with your Registers as soon as possible, and on the 22^d I also wrote to you on this subject of your Registers — if they are not in and you now [undecipherable] informing you, that no time will be taken for a further delay — that if you [undecipherable: have] overlooked my Letters to you on this subject from you will find that they have been wanted a long time, and as you are sensible that as [undecipherable] of your originals will if [undecipherable: held] out by you, to — be answerable to meet, I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you to [undecipherable] not think it right for it to go out of your hands without a discharge — to refuse a necessary Official information is considerably [undecipherable] I also strongly [undecipherable] — you [undecipherable] you to be [undecipherable: removed] from your present Office — I am however willing to be given that it [undecipherable] arrangements no [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] to delay information or to discourage the business of the public or to bring me into the trouble it [undecipherable] in my reputation or my fortune, [undecipherable] will [undecipherable] even if the press is [undecipherable: stopped], and will probably not only a reflection on me [undecipherable] but be others to [undecipherable] a loss of a thousand Dollars for a [undecipherable: breach] of [undecipherable] I am [undecipherable] that in about ten days [the] register will be called for and then I must in [undecipherable] my Letters to you on this subject, in order to [undecipherable] that sufficient applications [undecipherable] [undecipherable] made to you, [undecipherable] I shall however delay this as long as probably [undecipherable] that will [undecipherable] you for the [undecipherable] that your [undecipherable] may not suffer, I however [undecipherable] beg of you by every motive that can suggest itself to your mind, to comply with the subject of this letter. Samuel [undecipherable: Hardin] [undecipherable] is in the amount of 22 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable: Comptroller] for [undecipherable: Pennsylvania], no man [undecipherable] apply [undecipherable] for it [undecipherable: him] procuring your certificate how far he has been [undecipherable: settled] with the State of Virginia this must be done in every instance [undecipherable] Mr. Howell settles the Accounts of [undecipherable: Mayhew] [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] 1780 they being [undecipherable: accepted] by [undecipherable] out of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in their [undecipherable] have they not [undecipherable: been] settled for [undecipherable] both States — [undecipherable] [undecipherable]