New York, March 6, 1787 Doctor Your request respecting [undecipherable] has been attended to, [in] describing the amount [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that he was [taking] upon [us] on the [4^th] of [undecipherable] 1781, and [undecipherable] on the [28^th] of Nov: 1782. After which I cannot find [any] [undecipherable] of this Office [have been] [undecipherable] I [never] requested [undecipherable] to hold Conversation [for] [collection] of [the] manner of his leaving the service, who [appeared] without effect. [The] [claim] is [therefore] [delayed], [but] [there] must be some reason for his being omitted in the different [war] [returns]. Your [Books], [if the] [undecipherable] upon [letter] at the 4^th of July and [secured] I [know] not had [time] to [undecipherable] yet, but your receipt [shall] be [undecipherable] to be obtained to your order, [undecipherable] [applying] a [disclosure], a question [among] [undecipherable], but at present the [Comptroller] refuses to grant any, you will however [know] [if] you [have] [time] to establish a [precedent] with [them], when your [claim] goes [open] [account] as [Commissioner], which will [then] be a sufficient authority in [other] cases. I must [request] that the [Muster] Rolls and [Auditors] [papers], which [rest] upon and [the] State [Auditors] [claim] to your [profession] [being] [to be] conveyed as early as [possible], [they are] [needed] [and] [want] to be [for the] [public] service [undecipherable] [found] [that] [he] [In Francis] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], as [offered] by [his] [of] [answers] [given] by [them]. I have [to] [know] [what] [Office] [they] [amount] [used] [enclosed], [to what] [he was] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [of] [them]. — According to the [returns] made by M^r [Duer] to me. [It] appears, that [the] [charges] of [about] 18 Dol^rs made [by] [undecipherable] [got] by M^r Hamilton has not been accounted for, and as I [have] [never] had not been furnished with the proof which you say was [exhibited] to you, if well [undecipherable] [being] [obliged] to make the [deduction] [regularly] to M^r [Duer] [returns]. [New York [March 6,] / To the [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] [Treasurer] / Rec^d —]