Enclosed you have Thos Oliver’s (of Dumfries) Note pa<i>d to Doctor Gerardus Clarkson and dated Philada June 5th 1784, where th<e> interest of Money is C$PRCt— Also a Lre to you and nine Dollars in bank Notes from Saml Clarkson one of the Administrators to the afore. <Ger>ardus his father now deceased. You’ll be pleased to bring Suit immediately in the Dumfries Circuit and hold said Olver under suffi<mutilated> Rail, and appropriate 8 of the above mentioned Dollars to your own Use in full recompense for your Services in recovering and paying the Money recovered and¹ Cost to me if not called out of your hands by the Administrators; the other Dollar is to be considered and appropriated to the Expence of the Writ you must take out, as the whole Business now devolves on you. I am ever &c