Francis Hopkinson to American Commissioners, September 18, 1778

Philadelphia Septr. 18th. 1778

Gentlemen

I am directed by the Board of Treasury of the United States to transmit to you a List, shewing the Numbers the Bills of Exchange are to bear, which will be drawn upon you and issued from the respective Loan Offices. Agreeable to this Order I now enclose you an Invoice of such Bills as have been forwarded to each State from my Office, ascertaining their Numbers, Amount &c. The Design in giving you this Information, is that if any Bills should come to your Hands whose Numbers and Denominations will not correspond with the enclosed Invoice, you may know them to be Counterfeits. 1 I have the Honour to be Gentlemen Your most obedient humble servant

Fras Hopkinson Treasurer of Loans