W. D. Accountants Office August 28^th 1794 Sir In consequence of the information contained in your letter of the 11^th Ult^o respecting the counterfeiting the Notes of the Branch Banks of Baltimore and Charleston. I wrote to the Cashier of the Bank of the United States on the subject — I inclose his answer accompanied with four Sheets of the impressions two of five and two of ten dollar notes, and the signatures of the Presidents of the Branch Banks referred to, which I hope may serve to detect the fraud and I request your entire compliance with the request contained in the Letter of the Cashier, viz: That you will not show these sheets to any other than persons in whom the very greatest confidence can be placed. I am Sir &^c Constant Freeman Esq^r. Joseph Howell Fort Fidius — Georgia — [N.B. see Copy of the Letter from the Cashier of the Bank of the United States inclosed in the above to C. Freeman in Letter Book to the Office Page 171 —]