Gentlemen Agreeably to [strikethrough: my] engagement, upon my arrival in port, I waited on the gentlemen that compose the Treasury Board and conversed with them on the Subject of the Balance due you in trust for the late Colonel Flower — The difficulty you have long experienced Viz^t (the accounts of Fros.) was again urged as a reason why the Certificate for the balance due should not issue I endeavoured to shew the Board that [strikethrough: the account of Fros you had rendered was all that Flower was in equity bound to answer for, they being all that he ever had immediately under his charge] — This brought on a conversation on the Subject, which ended by the Board giving the opinion that he was in [undecipherable] to that account only as vouches for the stores received and delivered at his Own Office under the Direction of M^r Pearson from the Eleventh of August seventeen hundred [undecipherable: twenty] eight to the commencement of [the second rend...]