Your Excellency will find enclosed a report of the Board of Treasury on a motion made by the Delegates of Pennsylvania for placing the sum of 78,642 Dollars of the bills of credit of 81 to the debit of the General Account of said State with the United States.

The Board reports against the motion, and the presumption is that some Act of Congress will soon follow. It will be our object to prevent this for a week or ten days during which time we would beg to be honored with the advice and instructions of Council on the subject. This will be the more necessary as from some circumstances or other all the documents of the last year’s delegation on this point have been lost and not a single paper of the many which I know were furnish’d in support of the claim of the State, has come down to either Gen. Irwin or myself. I am Sir, With the highest respect Your Excellency’s Most Obedient servant