N. York 25 Feb^y 1790— My dear friend— I have received your favor last evening dated the 9^th instant. I have this day had some free conversation with the Congress. The result is this that if the Congress should passed the Act appointing the [strikethrough: officers] of the Secretary of the Treasury— that he will [strikethrough: appoint] immediately too— make special arrangement and [strikethrough: that he] [strikethrough: and only] so as to discharge your from that [strikethrough: he] [strikethrough: spirit] but to enable you to avail yourself of the future Resources of the congress?— I have one you— 2^dly That if you have a line at those two people on Muskee, where you now are accompany with a letter hereby [undecipherable: explain] plan of [undecipherable: fixing] from the [undecipherable] the