We do ourselves the honor to transmit herewith a Copy of a Representation from the Board of Treasury of Congress recommending the discharge of the additional Commissioner for liquidating and certifying the claims of the Citizens of Pennsylvania against the U. S., and for settling the accounts between the Union and that State.

This representation has not yet been acted upon in Congress, but it is likely to be, and probably will be taken up and decided in the course of a few days. In the Mean time it would be highly pleasing as well as instructing to us to be favored with the sentiments of your Excellency and the Council, on this proposition. We are induced to believe that a considerable proportion of the Claims of the Citizens of Penns’a yet remain unliquidated and that from the want of a general knowledge among the Citizens of the time limited for presenting their claims, which expired the seventeenth of March last, many hundred of those claimants are now left remediless by other means than an application at the Treasury office in New York; that considerable time must elapse before Mr. Stelle can enter upon the settlement of the State account; and that therefore two Commissioners may yet continue to be usefully employed in Penn’a for some time to come.

We have also conceived that it would be proper to obtain an Extension of time for Claimants to present their applications, in Penn’a “for the Reasons before suggested, Congress have been moved to grant such Extension in New York, but without success. If Council should be of opinion that it ought to be done in Penns’a, we hope to be armed with their Instructions for that purpose as early as may be.

We also transmit the Report of a Committee on a proposal of the State of Connecticut to cede part of the Claim of that state to Lands lying westward of Penn’a. If the proposal had been to cede the whole of the claim of that state to the Western Territory, there would scarcely have been any hesitation in accepting it, without enquireing how far the claim was well founded. But an apprehension that the acceptance of a part, as such may be construed as an admission of their claim to the Residue creates some difficulty. The proposed Deed in order to obviate this objection, is worded in such manner as not to express any Reservation. The Delegates of Connecticut urge warmly for an acceptance of this occasion. Cessions somewhat similar have been accepted from New York, and Massachusetts which are pleaded as precedents. They urge as a special motive for our agreeing to it that it will induce the state of Connecticut to discountenance the further pretensions of the Delaware & Susquehanna Companies to lands in Penns’a and tend to detach the Real settlers at Wyoming from the more disorderly Partezans of these Companies.

Permit us also to mention that an advertisement has appeared in the Connecticut papers calling a meeting of those Companies on the 17th of this month for certain purposes and amongst others to take measures for conteracting the machinations of the State of Penns’a.

Some debate has already passed on this report of the Committee and from the warmth with which an early decision is urged for we imagine a decision will be obtained in the course of this week, and from present appearances it will probably be in favor of the Report. We have the honor to be very respectfully Your Excellency’s Most obedient and most Humble Servant