prefered to be made in the same manner as I have heretofore done the other advances, made to the Line — To give this credit to the State, it appears [undecipherable] to me that your [undecipherable] muster and the receipts of the men and an authority from the Executive be forwarded and I believe that the certificate which I shall then issue in favor of the State will answer for it. The [undecipherable] for which he can wish, that is it will place him within the Law of the State which makes the pay of the Line when [undecipherable] by me, to be considered as Specie — Sam^l [undecipherable] Pierce John Habersham Esquire New York December 28^th 1786 Dear Sir The inclosed account is transmitted to you, for you to obtain a certificate from the State of Virginia of such part of it as has been accounted for with the State and to inform me of the reasons why it should not now be charged to their specie pay — You will therefore oblige me by an early communication, for this is the only delay to the forwarding the orders in favor of the Officers for the specie due them — Sam^l [undecipherable] Pierce Andrew Dunscomb Esquire New York January 3^d 1787 Dear Sir Your letter of [undecipherable] has come to hand — the necessity of your receipts to be taken in the certificates issued and to have an [undecipherable] certificate from the Officer & Soldier of the receipt of his pay, the certificate placed among your friends, [undecipherable] to you a [undecipherable] an attestation of the circumstances of their [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] some [undecipherable] a desire that the [undecipherable] of his pay to the specie one should have [found?] it [undecipherable] it was the [undecipherable], the only check we have I expect and the only one that any of the Committee [undecipherable] without a return of their receipts for his [undecipherable] or a discharge from it, which I shall do to you on the amount of your [undecipherable] Book and a [undecipherable] above mentioned, the blanks as already received — By Colonel Carrington is sent to the Loan Office, the specie pay still due the Line and also an [undecipherable] the duplicate of which I transmitted you last week — I have requested M^r [undecipherable] previous to [undecipherable] to require a certificate that this money which I suppose is this [undecipherable] has been accounted for — Sam^l [undecipherable] Pierce Andrew Dunscomb Esquire N.B. The Board of Treasure has thought [undecipherable] that the Residue of your Papers should be forwarded me by the Stage under the care of some one coming this way, it being the safest conveyance