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37. ACCOUNTS, Keeping.—

All these articles are very foreign to my talents, and
foreign also, as I conceive, to the nature of
my duties. * * * I suppose it practicable
for your board to direct the administration of
your moneys here [Paris] in every circumstance.—
To Samuel Osgood. Washington ed. i, 451.
(P. 1785)