[125] Comptroller Generals Office May. 1. 1787 D^r Sir I have diligently and carefully examined the accounts of monies advanced for the recruiting service and do not find any further payments to Colonel Henry Bicker by this State on that account, than those included in my return to you the 25 September 1784 and believe that he has received none other from pennsylvania— I am with great respect be John Nicholson Notes in that return omitted £75. 1^st Geo Calhoon for Serv^t 1^st Feb^y 1777 Jos. Howell Esq^r D^r Sir Philadelphia 5 May, 1787. Inclosed is the Treasurers order for the pay stopped for the Society from sundry officers, as mentioned in your Letter of the 1^st April last, and request you will take the trouble to send the Certificates, together those for the two orders transmitted you before. I am D^r Sir & Jos. Howell Esq^r Mathie M^cConnell Dear Sir New York May 11. 1787. Agreeably to your request of the 5 Instant I have enclosed the certificates of Cap. Ne^il Mackay and Lieut. Hughes, as also the certificates for Doctor Bond and Major Franks. for the two latter I have to request you to obtain the Treasurers order on M^r Pierce for the delivery and transmit it as early as possible—