[N. 2 Duplicate] Henry Knox. 19. January 1794. rec^d. 3. February. War department January 13^th 1793. Sir, The President of the United States has directed me to acknowledge [interlineation: the] and reply to your letters of the 28 November and the 19 [undecipherable] From the circumstance of not having possession of the papers upon the subject, an error was committed in my letter dated at Germantown on the 12 of November last, in saying that prizes taken after the fifth day of June by proscribed privateers and brought into our ports, were to be secured for the purpose of being restored to their former Owners The date which such prizes were to be restored is after the fifth day of August last. If the evidence in your possession establishes the fact that the money in possession of the Marshal of North Carolina belongs to the [undecipherable: probable reading "Gracia Brigid"] is to be delivered to such Agents as his Catholic Majesty's Ministers shall have empowered to receive it, or to the Captain or Owners if they should make their appearance. An Agent however, it is understood, has been appointed for this — purpose. The expences which have been or may be incur'd