Sir Richmond June 25^th 1787 — I take the liberty to enclose the copy of a paper lodged by M^r Oliver Pollock with the Comptroller of the accounts of the United States and an extract taken by me from the receipts of sundry Officers of the State of Virginia for a quantity of goods the property of the United States shipped by M^r Pollock from New [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] ^Orleans received by these Officers agreeably to their receipts referred to, and which are also now in my hands. — As the State has long since been apprized that these goods had been taken by her Officers, it may be presumed that the same has been [undecipherable: accounted?] for by them in their Settlements which now form a part of those Western accounts under the examination of Commissioners and that there can be no objection that the amount of the same be carried to the credit of the United States in the [undecipherable] for the expenses of that [undecipherable] I am &c [signature] [To:] The [undecipherable] of Virginia