To Unknown
Mount Vernon March 21, 1805
Sir
I observe two notices in the alexandria papers from the mutual insurance company, which I do not know how to understand. The one informs the members that a meeting is requested on the 8th of april, and States that at present none of them are insured. I am perfectly at a loss to concieve what circumstance can have placed us in this awkward predicament. We have paid our premiums, and no legitimate demands remains unsatisfied with which I am acquainted. I understood that the repartition formerly asked for had been dispensed with at the general meeting. The other notice may possibly explain this difficulty. It states that a law of the legislature passed in Jany, had seperated the Country from the town hazards, & calls upon the latter to pay up. Perhaps the first notice applies only to the town members.
Please write me immediately on this subject, that I may in time depute some person to appear & represent me. I am Sir Yr mo. ob. Sert
Bush. Washington
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