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Knoxville 9 March 1804

Sir

Yours of 13 February ult. I have came duly to hand, been duly honored with It affoards [sic]
me pleasure to discover that you are in such forwardness with
your business and that you expect to have the same compleated [sic]
by the first day of April - I am sorry you are oblidged
to Feateague [sic] yourself in so great a degree, but have no
doubt our the Assembly will consider your services and make
you ^an ample allowance for all your trouble - It gives
me pain to find you are in want money, especially when it
can not be sent forwarded M^r Maclin & myself have made
every exertion to procure some bank notes to send you, and
as yet find it out of our power,- there is not one solitary Cent in
the Treasury at Knoxville, tho we could I suppose ^we could procure the
sum you have wrote for otherways, provided it could
be conveyed with certainty to Raleigh- I am much relieved about the
business since ^being informed hearing from M.^r Maclin that M.^r Brown
had forwarded to you some the sum of one hundred dollars,
never the less that will not prevent Mon the Money sum being trans
=mitted to you which you have requested request, provided it can be