Sir, Richmond April 19^th 1792 I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter this instant, and have no serious [undecipherable] conformable to your injunction that the loan officer in this city [undecipherable] claims to pay to the Treasurer of this Commonwealth a sum of four thousand eight hundred and forty five and 55/100 The claims due to this state is, to be sure, small but this does not diminish our right to its return. It would be highly pleasing to me to comply with any position you can now make, and I regret exceedingly [that] my official duty at the present occasion [undecipherable] and now [undecipherable]. As the pressure of public business may probably prevent [undecipherable] from paying any attention to this subject even at the present [undecipherable], I must wait until this most [undecipherable] this difficulty you suggest should be cured. My [undecipherable] in this respect to the humble [undecipherable] made on [behalf] of this [Commonwealth] for the temporary protection his frontiers, has ever been in favour of adding this, if agreeable to the President. I cannot hesitate to [say?] in advising that the request of [undecipherable] has permanently complied with. I will forward to the county Lieutenant of Kanawha a transcript of that part of your letter which relates to the claims [undecipherable] by him and transmit to you the papers which will necessarily send to me in consequence of this communication. I have the hor. Be. Signed Henry Lee The Honorable Henry Knox Esq. Secretary of War Copy from the letter book Attest [undecipherable] Coleman A.C.C. [In the subject of monies [expended?] by this State for the defense of the frontier & [undecipherable] by the United States] N^o 3 April 19^th 1792