We the Subscriber’s Deputy Postmaster General and Secretary of the Post Office in America, appointed by the Postmaster General of Great Britain, do hereby certify, that Benjamin Franklin, late in the same Office, did this Day exhibit to us his Accounts, which we have examined and compared with the Comptrollers Books, and with Receipts of the Receiver-General produc’d to us, and do find the same to agree, some small additional Charges excepted for Horns and Stamps; and that there is remaining in his Hands due to the said Office the Sum of Nine Hundred and seventy three Pounds and Fivepence Sterling, which Ballance he tendred to us in Currency; but we having no Authority or Orders to settle the said Account and receive the Ballance, did refuse the same. Witness our Hands.