The committee will however be sensible that special difficulties must frequently attend settlements of this kind not from any defect in the law, but from the want of record in respect to services performed and to the transactions in the late Pay Masters Generals department. I am &c &c Honble Mr Carnes Joseph Howell --- N^o 1. Accountants Office April 12^th 1794 Sir Your letter of 20^th December 1793 I should have answered sooner but that the entry in my books for the disbursements of the money advanced for the Militia guard on the Brig Nancy has been delayed owing to the irregularity of the service interfering with the arrangements of my Office. It is now done & I have exonerated you from that advance. I am &c &c John Chester Esq^r Joseph Howell Supervisor Weathersfield Connecticut