(Copy) Richmond December 31st 1789 Sir The enclosed Resolution of the General Assembly of the 19th of the present month with the other Resolutions and papers which accompany it I beg your particular attention to. I am uninformed whether these by any Office under the United States which has authority to take consequences of such claims as these as from their nature they seem to belong more properly to yours than to any of the execute departments, I have taken the liberty to enturst them to your care I have been the more readily induced to do this from a [undecipherable] that these [undecipherable] but [undecipherable] will find a patron in an Clerk who has been so often a witness to their sufferings and has shared with them the dangers of right. years that if these should now exist any person to whom these papers can be submitted permit me to add mine to the [undecipherable] whish of the assembly that these claims may be inquired into and [complete line blacked out] I have the honor to be Sire, your obt. Servant signed Beverly Randolph