by me, and that he has so well imitated my Signature, that it is almost impossible to detect them. I am therefore apprehensive that the Loan Officers may by this means have been imposed on & have therefore to request your attention to the 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 Roman figures the Number of the Certificate in Persons hand in which Case you may be very certain that the Certificate is a bad ones & and will requires the utmost attention that the Persons through whose hands the same has passed should be Known — J.P. The Loan Officers of the different States. --- Gentlemen Office of Army Accounts November 2^d 1786. I In Conformity to the directions of the Board of the 28 Ult^o I have considered the subject of M^r Grahams Letter of the 23 Sep^t & beg Leave to Submit the following Opinion — 1. That the States were bound by the Acts of Congress and must rely on them for their Authority to Support