Proposing a plan for the payment of the Southern army.--Necessity of a tax law by the States for effecting this purpose.--Answer to the objections against this measure.--Objections to measures compelling the receipt of the notes payable in taxes, and regulating prices. To the Governor of Rhode Island. Office of Finance, December 29th, 1781, 72 Necessity of continued activity on the part of the States.--Necessity of prompt compliance with the requisitions of Congress. Circular to the Governors of the States. Office of Finance, January 3d, 1782, 74 Negligence of certain States to lay the impost recommended by Congress.--Fatal effects of a derangement of the finances. Circular to the Governors of the States. Office of Finance, January 8th, 1782, 76 Establishment of the Bank of North America.-- Advantages of the institution. To the Governor of Rhode Island. Office of Finance, January 14th, 1782, 78 Answer to the representations of the Assembly, of their inability to comply with the requisition of Congress.--Necessity of providing funds.-- Insufficiency of specific supplies.--Rhode Island manufactures. To the President of Congress. Office of Finance, January 15th, 1782, 81 State of the currency.--Advantages of a general currency.--Use of metals as a circulating medium.--Silver the best money standard.--Utility of coinage.--The decimal ratio is the most convenient.--Plan of a metallic currency. George Washington to Robert Morris. Philadelphia, January 25th, 1782, 95 Proposes to send officers to the New England States, with representations of their deficiencies of troops. To the President of Congress. Office of Finance, February 11th, 1782, 97 Financial embarrassments.--Refusal of several States to comply with the requisitions of Congress.--No prospect of foreign aid.--Measures taken in the Department of Finance.--Advantages of prompt and vigorous measures in the field.-- Necessity of requiring men and money from the States.--Proposes a series of resolutions, calculated to accomplish the desired object.-- Superior advantages of Continental forces. Circular to the Governors of the States. Office of Finance, February 15th, 1782, 110