LS signed “Oliv: Wolcott, Jr.,” one page, 8 x 10, December 2, 1795. Letter to Hodijah Baylies, in full: "I have to request, that you will retain in your hands a sufficient sum of the monies arising from the duties of Imports and Tonnage for the purpose of discharging the allowances to Fishing Vessels which will become due in your District on the 31st instant, and which are to be paid agreeably to the instructions heretofore given for that purpose. If the funds accruing in your Office should fall short of the amount required, you will pay the deficiency by drafts agreeably to the annexed form on Benjamin Lincoln Esq'r Collector of Boston, in which case it will be necessary that you transmit your signature to the said Collector and furnish him with weekly statements accurately describing therein the drafts issued. Copies of these statements are also to be regularly forwarded to this Office." In very good to fine condition, with faint toning along the folds, and a tiny hole affecting no text.
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