...how [undecipherable] of the Express & at this day enclosed in a Letter to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the State of [undecipherable] from John Pierce Esq[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Master [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which letter was [undecipherable] by me to the [undecipherable] master of New York — Joseph Howell Jun^r [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Office of Army Accounts Novem^r 22^d [undecipherable] Gentlemen I take the liberty to inform the Board that M^r. William [undecipherable] who acted as D[undecipherable] M[undecipherable] in North Carolina has in his hands the sum of Sixty seven Thousand six hundred dollars of the Bills emitted by the States of Virginia & Maryland under the resolution of Congress of March 18^th [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] he received in July 1781 and has not paid [undecipherable] to his obligation or [undecipherable] any account of to the Officers of the United States. copies of the vouchers which authenticate this information I do myself the honor to enclose and am with great Respect &c Honorable Board of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Charlotte July 27^th 1781 £6.600 [undecipherable] Rec^d from John [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by the hands of John [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from the Board of War sixty seven thousand and six hundred dollars of the New Emission which I promise to deliver to Joseph [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or General [undecipherable] either of their order with three duplicates which I promise to deliver at the same time having [undecipherable] two [undecipherable] of the same [undecipherable] Date [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of Alexandria