for which you will be pleased to take duplicate receipts accordingly — A Cap^t Coleman is ordered to your city I suppose it would be best for you to retain his Money untill he arrives — I am Sir &c Joseph Howell Nicholas Fish Esq^r Supervisor New York W.D. Accountants Office April 8^th 1794 Sir I have this day received your muster for Feb^y and March which I return inclosed the same not being qualified — agreeably to instruction and which cannot be dispensed with in one instance without it being claimed as a precedent in another — the receipt for December as far as you have paid are right, I will immediately send on the pay when the Muster is returned to me — I am Sir &c Joseph Howell Cap^t Nicholas Hannah Alexandria — Virginia