[Docket: Joph. Williams Esq^r / [undecipherable] 9. 1800] Jany 3. Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r [undecipherable: attend'd? ans'd?] [undecipherable] ult. Philadelphia [Received from State Dep. Nov. 24. '99 R.P.O. 401810] Springfield January 3^d 1800 — Sir, I have received your favour of the 28^th ult^o informing that "you have a Warrant in my favour for four thousand one hundred Dollars on account of the Public expenditures at Springfield — wishing me to draw for the whole or part, or fix on some safe mode of remittance". you then ask "Will Post Notes command Cash with you" I have met with no difficulty heretofore in obtaining Cash for Post Notes, nor do I apprehend any in future — If this mode of remitting monies for this Department, should be agreeable to you & give you the least trouble, it will be more accommodating to me than having Checks on the Bank of New York — the Notes may be drawn payable twenty days after date, then in case of a miscarriage, time may be had to have them Checked at the Bank — I have Sir to request that the Notes may be drawn from one not to exceed five hundred Dollars, on account of the difficulty of getting large Bills changed. I am Sir most respectfully your obedient Servant [underline: Joseph Williams] Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r