had lodged in his hands receipts for the payment of the 500.000 doll^rs for 31 Soldiers prisoners — this you will be pleased to certify to M^r Hopkins that the notes for Cap^t Taliaferro's pay of 702 & 703 may be received — I disturb your immediate attention — at the request of a friend & beg you to favor me with what will authorise M^r Hopkins to deliver the notes aforesaid post Jan^y 4^th A Dunscomb And^r Dunscomb — Office of Army Accounts New York Jan^y 6 1799 Dear Sir I have attended to the request contained in your letter of the 12 inst^d and by appealing to the accounts of M^r Harrison have obtained the original papers attested to in his certificate & rec^d to Cap^t Taliaferro on file with your papers as Ass^t Commissioner — by this post I shall write to M^r Hopkins and inform him he is at liberty to deliver Cap^t Taliaferro the notes due him for balance of Specie pay of 702 & 703 — as these receipts has exonerated the Cap^t from those charges which appeared against him, — your letter was a long time travelling — it did not reach me untill the 3. inst. J Howell J^r Cap^t Al^c de Huff Office of Army Accounts Lancaster New York Jan^y 13 1799 Sir Your letter of the 20 Dec last is received — conceiving you intitled to the years pay allowed to