[#5254] Jos. Howell Esq^r Treasury Department Comptrollers Office April 29. 1795 Sir [seal] Herewith I transmit you a letter to me from the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of the accounts of Gen^l Steuben & of his several claims upon the United States. I will thank you to furnish me with such information as you may posses on the various matters respecting these claims, concerning which the Secretary has made enquiry, and to point this information as particularly as possible to the different objects [strikethrough: of expe] in his letter. Accompanying the letter is a report of the Auditor who has lately had these claims of Gen^l Steuben under examination you will oblige me by giving your opinion fully upon hereon I am [undecipherable] to [strikethrough: & express his] [undecipherable] [strikethrough: return the papers with your] N^o Eveleigh Comp^t