[ans'd [undecipherable: date]] [Major [undecipherable: Wm.?] [undecipherable]] [[undecipherable address], 1796] [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 1894. R.P.O. 401310.] [Ans'd Thus.] As Mr. Donald & Co inform us, that Dan: Hannegan deft in [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] whilst it was remitted by every honest Man, that his letter inclosing this Bill was a Duplication, which [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of that [undecipherable]; [undecipherable] the first letter was improperly made use of, or, that two Bills for the Same Sum have been been [undecipherable] of the Same date, & that if so, the one in our hands, they [undecipherable] must be repaid: be pleased to inform us for their satisfaction, how this affair appears to [undecipherable] after first [undecipherable] the Bill paid, that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] do [undecipherable], Yr [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] July 1. 1796 [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 1894. R.P.O. 401310.]