Letter Signed

Instructions Governing Recruiting Accounts

Howell encloses a form for a recruiting account which governs the pay of bounty to recruits and provides instructions for same.

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War Department, Accountant's Office

New York

Captain Alexander Thompson

Joseph Howell

Secretary of War

Henry Knox

War Department, Accountant's Office

New York

columns for four several payments which are to complete the amount of the bounty

men's enlistments

receipts as necessary vouchers to this office for settlement

pay

recruiting account

instructions

vouchers

regulations

command

Receipts are to be taken separately for each recruit and the several payments to each will be placed under one number of your vouchers in the account.
In the case of signature not being written it is to be witnessed by a person of respectability.
Observe that before your recruits march or are otherwise transferred from your command you are to pay them their full bounty any regulations in regard to paying the bounty notwithstanding.
The Secretary of War in his recruiting instructions has directed you in paying the bounty to advance certain proportions thereof until you have ascertained the fidelity of the recruit.

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