Comptroller Gen^ls Office August 3, 1786. D^r Sir Will you be so obliging as to send me an account of the charges against Gen^t Deheas? I omitted to bring them also — If you could spare the book I left with you I would take pains to have his account drawn out regularly and sent with the vouchers for examination. You will please to tell M^r Pierce to send me his instructions not to deliver Col. Mead any money untill he has deposited his accounts with the United States. Yours &^c John Nicholson J. Howell Esq^r N York 7^th Aug. 1786. Sir Agreeably to your request of the 3^d Inst I have enclosed the charges which appear against General Dehaps in the books of this Office — The amount which you left shall be forwarded as soon as the charges of points one of the Officers [undecipherable: from] whom I expect him to settle his account. I am latter off M^r Pierce is still absent from the Office