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are thus left to shift for ourselves, without previous warning. As soon
as they shall replenish Mr. Grand's hands, I will give you notice, that
you may recommence your usual drafts on him; unless the board should
provide a separate fund for you, dependant on yourself alone, which I
have strongly and repeatedly pressed on them, in order to remove the
indecency of suffering your drafts to pass through any intermediate hand
for payment.
My letters from America came down to the 24th of April. The disturbances
in the Eastern States were entirely settled. I do not learn that
the government had made any examples. Mr. Hancock's health being
re-established, the want of which had occasioned him to resign the
government of Massachusetts, he has been re-elected to the exclusion of
Governor Bowdoin. New York still refuses to pass the impost in any form,
and were she to pass it, Pennsylvania will not uncouple it from the
supplementary funds. These two States and Virginia, are the only ones,
my letters say, which have paid any thing into the Continental treasury,
for a twelvemonth past.
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