New York January 26^th 178[undecipherable] [12] Receiv'd with, since a full continuance of my Registers certificate. [undecipherable] lately was told me that this certificate [undecipherable] for sale by [undecipherable] copy is now in you. That is counterfit. I presume that M. [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] on his mint will be equal to my own, who wants to go to Philadelphia I shall wish for that reason it may be completed on the [Type?] of the fellow D[undecipherable] Tho: Smith Esq New York February 27 1789 Sir I beg leave to inform your excellency and Express that in the year 1783 when the duty of settling the accounts of the late army was committed into my hands it became necessary for me to reside at Camp, and thereby to place in the care of others that business which was unavoidably necessary to be discharged at my Office in Philadelphia — That the payment of the public monies was entrusted by me to M. George