Informs that Joseph Howell obtained permission of the Board of Treasury to remain in Philadelphia until to trial of the person confined in jail for passing bad certificates. Encloses copy of Doctor Basil Middleton's letter to Colonel Carrington and certificate showing he was in South Carolina in 1783. Not sufficient to grant pay. He was not returned in arrangement of Virginia line 1783. Carrington says he saw the Doctor in South Carolina in 1783. Refers to copy of furlough granted by General Greene.