New York, April 1^st, 1788. Sir, I do myself the honor to inclose a statement of the arguments already made use of and my further remarks on seventeen questions, replied to, but not formerly decided by the board of Commissioners appointed under the act of [undecipherable: cession?] for settling the account of expenses incurred by Virginia for subsisting [undecipherable] of the Illinois Territory, which I request that you will be pleased to lay before the committee of Congress, to whom the papers transmitted by the legislature of Virginia, on this subject, have been referred. I have the honor to be, with great very consideration & Respect Sir your h[undecipherable] [signature] The Hon^ble M^r Wadsworth