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Report on the Petition of General Irvine

The Commissioner of Army Accounts gives a report on the petition of General William Irvine.

Report on the Petition of General Irvine

1787

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11

Signed as Commissioner of Army Accounts
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Continental Congress

John Pierce

General William Irvine

Congress

Brigadier General Howe

Southern Army

officer

Commissioner of Army Accounts

Major General

Brigadier General Moultree

Brigadier General Hand

McIntosh

Daniel Brodhead

South Carolina

Georgia

Fort Pitt

petition

additional pay

allowance

command

Journals of Congress

posts

resolution

settlement

public expenses

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Report on the petition of General Wm Irvine
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N York
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[illegible] Commissioner of Army accounts to whom was referred the petition of Genl Wm Irvine begs leave to report That on the 16th of June 1775 Congress granted the additional pay of one hundred & sixty six Dols to a Major Genl when command [illegible]. That an allowance of 125 dols monthly was granted on the 15th of April 1777 to Brigd Genl Howe and to any officers of equal rank who should succeed [illegible] [illegible] the command of the troops in So Carolina and Georgia, and also on the 14th of May 1779 a grant was made to Brigd Genl Moultree of the extra pay of a Major Genl on a separate command, which he commanded the Southern Army.
and [illegible] [illegible] the 8th of May 1781 the allowance was granted to [illegible] officer commanding a separate department was given to the commanding general at west point, which [illegible] all the precedents found on the Journals of Congress of allowances to commanding officers of [illegible], and were repealed by the resolution of April 22 d 1782, excepting that to the general commanding the Southern Army. The supply [illegible] therefore of the generals commanding [illegible] at [illegible][illegible] was provided for by any resolutions, the command of which which command [illegible] on the following officers [illegible] Brig General Hand from April 10 1777 to May [illegible] 1778 [illegible] McIntosh from about May 1778 to July 30 1779 [illegible] Danl Brodhead from about July 1779 to Sept 26 1781 & Genl Irvine from Sept 26, 1781 to the [illegible] of the war.
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Your Commissioner having examined the settlement of these gentlemen, and finds that in no [illegible] any extra pay has been admitted to these [illegible] in the offices of the United States, and therefore but from the [illegible] that [illegible]
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commanding general had the full [illegible] full [illegible] opportunity to supply furnish their tables from the Commissaries stores at the public expense

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the commissioner [illegible] that the case of Genl Irvine may probably [multiple illegible words struck out] be different from that of the other commanding officers at those Ports, and therefore begs [illegible] to submit the same to the consideration of Congress


which [illegible] has not & probably never can be brought to their debit,

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