the information decided given M^r Yetts without consulting themselves with which the fraternity [undecipherable] themselves myself [undecipherable] also [undecipherable] to the Men of [undecipherable] information I supplied M^r Yetts that [undecipherable] was willing to satisfy any Gentleman of the House [undecipherable] in regard to what had been done & of my intentions. The Committee also took up my argument on the allowance of [undecipherable] in the same manner, M^r Yetts has undoubtedly full opportunity to reply to every issue laid down before him — this Committee [undecipherable] determine that this reply was satisfactory without hearing my defence of my position is a Mystery. I have Gentlemen in a very [undecipherable] manner given you a detail of my concern. I have been very unwell for a [undecipherable] past and am not able to give [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] answer and wish and I must have to beg your Board to excuse for the same [undecipherable] is annexed to this which [undecipherable] agreed and which I most request that the Board would lend to M^r [undecipherable] long enough to have a copy taken — I have the honor to be with very [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] The Honble Gentlemen y^r ob^t [undecipherable] The Board of Treasury Jo Pierce Richmond [undecipherable] Jan^y 17^th 1786 Gentlemen Since my last letter in which I had the honor to inform your Board that the Legislature of this State had passed an Act protecting against our proceedings and withdrawing the further [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I have received the [undecipherable] author[undecipherable] [undecipherable] by the Clerk of the House which I now enclose — Being [undecipherable] by this Act to the alternative either to proceed in this Business in open defiance of the Authority of the State or to comply with their desire I maturely reflected on the consequences that might result from my conduct and on the whole [undecipherable] it best to comply with the act of the Legislature which I did by giving into my colleagues in office a paper of [undecipherable] the