[Col James O'Hara Esq] [ymo g] Phila 8^th March 1793 Sir With this you will receive 5000 Dollars being a part of 18,000 for which I have a Warrant. this comes in Notes that I hope will answer will if any other denomination will do better please to advise me. — I have continued the mode of Conveyance by Post, because I think it the safest and most expeditious, and because private conveyances, are not always to be found. — Yet if you prefer any other mode on notice it shall be attended to. — The business in the War Office has been so pressing that until to day I could not procure a copy of the Regulations of the 3^rd August, twelve [Contd 1793] [168] now attend to them and gave you my opinion [undecipherable: conformably] to your request shortly. — The Comptroller has charged me your Accounts, mine to the same [undecipherable] go in to day I shall hold mine in future ready for adjustment, yet the advances you have made will not now be carried nothing but positive and full Settlements. The [undecipherable] of advances made on which it may be impossible to make Settlements, will eventually be considered; but at present they will not be attended to. — I give no Credit to the Monies forwarded to you, but my disbursements pass to your Credit, and when admitted pass to your debit in my Books, to which adding the sums disbursed to you & advances made to others operate as a full numeration for all the monies that come into my hands to which you are accountable. — I shall keep you advised of every transaction relative to the business in which you are engaged. you will see by the Papers that General Lincoln, Col Pickering & M^r Randolph, late Governor of Virginia are appointed Commissioners for the ensuing Treaty I am Sir yours &c Sam^l Hodgdon P.S. On enquiry I find [undecipherable] [undecipherable] had gone to Hartford in New England, before your draft on him for 100 Dollars came to my hand on his return which will not be until May it shall be [undecipherable]