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140 W.D. Accountants Office June 5th, 1794

Sires I inclose you copies of my Circular letters to recruiting officers dates 1st and 20th, March 1793, and 23rd, January 1794, and of the Secretary of War dated 1st March 1793, for your government while on the recruiting service.

I am Sires etc Joseph Howell

Capt. Richd, Sparks Philad'a. Ltd? himself


W.D. Accountants Office June 6th, 1794

Sires Enclosed is a statement of the account of Colonel Lewis Dubois agreeably to an act of the first ? of the third Congrefs [Congress] approved the 4th Instant. Colonel Dubois being charged in the books of the late Pay Office with Eight hundred dollars received in August 1776 and the further sum of five hundred dollars received the 6th of November 1778 for the recruiting service and these