You executed two declarations for assurance some time past, which were delivered at this Office by the S. Agent Mr Dawson; with verbal Instructions, that, they should not be recorded until you directed it.—As there were no written Instructions to hold them up, I did not wish to take them into my Keeping, since it is my duty to record every declaration on receipt of it, & to address a letter to the proprietor of the houses intended to be Assured informing of the præmium, unless I have written Orders, as to any delay—After recording the declaration, the præmium accruse & must be charged on the books.

Will you Sir, be good enough to direct, whether, I shall immediately record these declarations—whether I shall return them—or whether I shall continue to hold them subject to your future Orders.—

The præmiums of Assurance will be, as on the other side.—