[Illegible Text: Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. A better copy of the document could not be located, nor could its legibility be enhanced electronically.] [Page 2 is largely undecipherable due to document damage. Partial text visible in upper right corner: March 22, 1795 / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]] [Marginal notation: No [undecipherable]] Accountants Office March 14^th 1795 Sir I have the honor to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the hands of [the?] chief [accountants?] for this Department accompanied with [undecipherable] letters on the [subject?]. I have to [request?] you would be pleased to [fix?] a [form?] to govern the allowance which is to be made to [these?] [persons?] generally for [carrying?] [the?] [fees?] for your [information?] thereon it may be proper to mention the manner in which it is [conducted?]— [the?] [supervision?] is [deposited?] with the [Treasurer?] money is [remitted?] by the [Treasurer?] to the [supervisor?] who transmits [the?] [same?] to the person for [whom?] the advance or [payment?] is [intended?] [making?] appropriate receipts for the [same?] which he [undecipherable] transmits to this Office [for?] [undecipherable] from the charge which [is?] [in?] the first instance [stated?] [against?] [him?] and he [justifies?] his own [undecipherable] to the [Treasurer?] [where?] annexed to the warrant [as?] the [voucher?] [and?] the more [to?] [be?] [entered?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] mode of remitting money was [prescribed?] by a [law?] [undecipherable] the [Treasury?] [is?] authorized [undecipherable] who [are?] [undecipherable] [intended?] for [Supervisors?] [undecipherable] [all?] to all purposes [for?] [undecipherable] [necessary?] which [undecipherable] in some instance [amounts?] to a very considerable amount [which?] [undecipherable] to more [trouble?] than for small sums for the [revenue?] [service?] — From my knowledge of the business I submit the propriety of allowing a [Commission?] on all [remittances?] not [exceeding?] a certain sum [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [more?] than [the?] [amount?] [from?] which [undecipherable] [that?] [for?] any longer [undecipherable] I am Sir with [undecipherable] [respect?] Your Ob[undecipherable] [Signed: Joseph Howell Jr.?] [Bottom left: Secy of [undecipherable]]