Richmond May 1787 Gentlemen The business in what I am engaged will between [undecipherable] in greater proper length return of my leave [undecipherable] them at [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] and [undecipherable][undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] arrangement of the [undecipherable] account order its different [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] vouchers, what, As a work of times, is considerable to that, which [undecipherable] is well requierd to for any [undecipherable] I had of the difer expenditures of the Stores and [undecipherable] my reasons for providing in the business in the manner the vouchers for the latter[undecipherable] bring and in the almost irregularly & confusion, in that I may form a complaint I[undecipherable] of such branch of expenditures, compare the different promis and regiments and the com[undecipherable] then of the articles with that of the [undecipherable] Men, and his informed in [undecipherable] of any [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] andthat has to [undecipherable] plain either on the payment of monies or the deliveries of the [undecipherable] Horses. [undecipherable] I wish there [undecipherable] in it the only [undecipherable]effectual [undecipherable], Is En [undecipherable] for me to attmid being otherwise totalls ignorant of the affairs of that department in what the expenses [- followed by a line with double and triple supscripts that are mostly undecipherable and not in a clear order - ][undecipherable] parties and if necessary to the ward. % [the sign refers to an amendment on the second page] Mr Howell my assistant has written to me requesting any to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] your honorable Board, for obtaining for him, an appointment as one of the few Commissioners for colluting & arranging the accounts of the States under the late order of Congress. I have a wish to see a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] deliquences must with the public approbation , and he has in addition to them the [undecipherable] of having and for about ten years, in the public Offices, when accounts of the nature of those now to be settled by for the States [undecipherable] clearly copied thro’ his hands. and If then [undecipherable] but I cannot [undecipherable] that he will wish abandon leave any offers in my absence and I have orders to request that of the Board shall [undecipherable] here as proper person [page folded in 3 sections: 1. section: letter text, 2. section: administrative note, 3. section: amendments to a paragraph on the first page marked with an “%”] to quart[undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] appartements that the it [undecipherable] for me that what will enable him to attend to any business as [undecipherable] during my absence, for there is no other person so [undecipherable] there and I [undecipherable] in.

June 1. 1787 To the Bd Treasury Copied

% I am obliged to go [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of this business with my own hands, and to make out the copies and [undecipherable] myself what might be alone by a [undecipherable]. if I ever permitted to have one from my Office men at this late period of the business the public would be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as it would greatly forward the [undecipherable] my return