If the expence of an additional Clerk would not interfere with the arrangement of your Honble board I should be happy in being authorised to employ one on this business, which will enable me to comply with the wishes of several loan officers who have the interests of the United States to give, in forwarding to them a list of such errors as may appears . . . . . . Joseph Howell jnr The Honble The Commissioners of the Treasury Compt. Generals Office June 24^th 1788 Dear Sir I wish you would be so obliging as to examine the rolls of the 12^th Pennsylvania Regiment & inform me if Capt Peter Withington is mustered read the 11^th of May 1777, or whether he was discontinued on the rolls before that time, if either left out — I am Sir with great respect &— Joseph Howell Esq^r John Nicholson Asst. Com^t. Army Acc^ts Compt. Gen^ls Office June 21^st 1788 Dear Sir I believe you have been put in possession of all the receipts, Vouchers or papers respecting Col. Woods Acct which came now furnished, and as his Family expect that after charging him the balance which, after stating his account you will find due from him on his army settlements out of his pension [undecipherable] &c, there is to be from something considerable— I pray you will be so obliging as to state Col. Woods account as well as you can from every document.