War Office August 26 1789 Gentlemen/ I have the honor to transmit you a copy of a letter which I this day received from the President of the United States. In order to promote the Commissioners who are to negotiate the Indian Treaties with the necessary means to effect the objects of their mission, I have to request of the President and Directors of the Bank of New York an immediate loan of ten thousand dollars, and further sums from time to time if the same may be found necessary, to execute this business, not exceeding in the whole the sum of twenty thousand dollars. On the loans the Bank Shall make on this request it will be allowed by the public its customary interest — And as soon as I shall receive the Warrants specified in the President of the United States letter, the same Shall be deposited in the Bank to the amount of the sums loaned. I have the honor to be Gentlemen Your most Obedient Humble Servant Knox To the President and Directors of the Bank of New York.