Philadelphia 1^st March 1790 Dear Sir This Morning I was honored with the your Letter of the 9^th of instant — you was perfectly right in regarding mine of the 8^th as a private letter, I meant it to be Such and I feel grateful for the reply — You inform me The Collectors were forbidden on as hay madness to the Invalids, to prevent the Public Money being locked up — will you permit me to en-form you that Colo^ny Talc-in that [undecipherable] not to intimate that was the case that gave rise to the Appointments or they frauds — but that to in a argument — [undecipherable] pursuant to the Act of Congress the center of the Treasury remitted actual Specie to the amount of Eighty three thousand three hundred dollars to discharge the Arrears — altho' he had an abundant supply on hand — the only reason assigned was that no breach might be made on the Cash on hand, or to foul in his Monthly return — I mention this fact, as [undecipherable] that might seem a bar to the alteration