[344] Joseph Howell Esq^r Commissioners Office Philadelphia 20^th Feb^y 1789 Sir I avail myself the pleasure to write you in the 11^th Inst. to which I beg leave to refer. I forgot to mention a Circumstance respecting M^r Harris's certificates that there is some endorsement necessary on the back of each Order to make them acceptable by this State. the Gentleman of the office are acquainted with the nature of it, which I request you to have done if not too late. I hope you will have it in your power to forward them before the next Month whenever the owners will be shut out here. I am with regard Sir M^r Harris &^c &^c Joseph Dawson John Nicholson Esq^r Office of Army Accounts New York Feb^y 2^d 1789 D^r Sir Your letter of the 22 Inst. was this day received. I now enclose you a Certificate for Colonel Bayard N^o 41887 for two hundred dollars on interest from the 4^th November 1783. M^r Pierce informed me that Col^o Bayard mentioned a much larger sum