Joseph Howell Esq^r Richmond June 8. 1787 Dear Sir Your letters of May 17^th & 25^th are arrived. I have written by this Post to the Board of Treasury in your favor, and desired them to give you an appointment to such States as will not make it necessary for you to leave my Office before my return: it is uncertain [strikethrough: how] long this business will require as I have taken the whole up anew from the Vouchers, if you can prevail on the Board to let M^r Swan join me, it would hasten my return very considerably. The Auditors papers must be arranged as they will be essential to be resorted to in the settlement of the States accounts and I believe to place them in the order they were formerly will be best — I perceive by your Register that you have issued a certificate to M^r Chinn, which I fear [undecipherable] I doubt whether [he] is entitled to pay [and] there is [a] balance against him in his old Money [strikethrough: undecipherable] accounts of [strikethrough: 15 undecipherable] 23300 dollars — Doctor Basil Meddleton claims pay for the year 1783 but cannot make it appear that he is entitled to it, I think that he is returned discharged on the first of that year, but he says Colo. Fainingto[n] knows that he was in duty in South Carolina to the end of the war. If Colo Fainingto[n] will give him a Certificate to that purport he ought to be paid and I wish you [in] that case to report the specie, that will be then due to him — I am &c: J. Pierce