In my letter of the 15th. Instant I had the honor to report to your Excellency and Council the progress that was making towards a settlement of the Accounts of Pennsylvania in the different Requisitions of Congress.

On the 25th. Instant having been informed by a letter that the examination was gone thro’ I went on to New York and found that they were all examined stated and settled by the Clerks and Auditor and lay with the Comptroller for his final dicision thereupon. After hearing my observation in behalf of the State upon those Accounts he confirmed the settlement made us aforesaid and sent them to the Registers Office where all Accounts of the United States are entered and stated. The paper marked N 7. is copy of the report of the Clerks of Accounts, that marked No 8 is a copy of the Auditors Report, No 9 is a copy of the Account of Pennsylvania in the Requisition of Septem 1782 as stated and settled by the Clerks of Accounts, Auditor and Comptroller. N 10 is a Copy of ditto in the Requisition of April 1784. N 11 is a Copy of do. in the Requisition of Septem 1785 and N 12 a Copy of the General Account under the Existing Requisition of Congress. The deductions called errors were charges not so fully vouch’d as appeared to be necessary. I therefore withdrew the claims reserving a right to charge them in future when the should be fully substantiated. But the construction which they put upon the Requisition of Congress of April 1784 and according to which they have settled the Accounts is conformable to the interpretation thereof which had been given by the Board of Treasury before. Indeed I hoped when they came to State the Accounts according to the Requisitions these objections would necessarilly give way and that they would be surmounted by them. And I think any person who will look at   settled Account of the Requisition of April 1784 both in N 10, and in the gneral Account N 12 will suppose that the difference of the sums in facilities and specie in the statements between the Accounts rendered and the Accounts settled arises not from any disagreement of opinion what the sum called for by the Requisition of April 1784 really was, but an arithmetical error committed by one side or the other in dividing by four to ascertain the one fourth part thereof payable in facilities.

As I conceived the State was injured by this settlement so far as related to the distribution of the Requisition aforesaid into specie and facilities, I have entered an Appeal to the United States in Congress, with whom it remains to do Justice. See the inclosed copy of my letter to the Delegates of Pennsylvania N 13.

It must give pleasure to the Citizens of this State to see that Pennsylvania is not only the most forward in settling her Accounts but also the foremost in her payments to the Union. I am with great respect &c