Oct 30. 1786 Loan Officers of the different States Circular — Copied New York October 30. 1786 Office of Army Accounts Circular Sir Inclosed you will receive my further register of certificates issued — I have to request that you will be attentive to M reason to believe that John Phelon has passed counterfeited certificates with of the same necessities markes and descriptions with the genuine ones issued by me, and that he has so well immitated my signature that it is almost impossible to detect them. and I am therefore apprehensive that the Loan Officers may by this means have been imposed on, & have therefore to request that your attention to the detecting detection of any person who shall offer such duplicate for the payment of Interest and that you will see if on the back of some of them there is not marked in small figures the number of the certificate ^ in Phelon’s hand in which case you may be tolerably very certain that the certificate is a bad one and will require the utmost attention that it be the persons through whose hands the same has passed should be known. ✓ N. H- ✓ Masst ✓ R. I. N. Y. Pen Vira

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