1To George Washington from the Commissioners for Settling Accounts Between the United States and the Individual States … (Washington Papers)
There are some points relative to the finishing of our business which we suppose will occasion you less trouble in giving us directions about in conversation than by letters the principal are respecting the person to whom you think it will be most proper to make our report and into whose custody we shall deliver the Books & papers belonging to the office —if agreeable we shall be glad to know...
2To George Washington from the Commissioners for Settling Accounts Between the United States and the Individual States … (Washington Papers)
The two points we had the honor to submit to your consideration this morning are those on which we wish your direction—there are none other that are material—those points are We consider the custody of these documents of consequence and conceive that they ought not to be subject to any derangement but by proper authority. We Supposed that a conversation would more readily adjust these points...