Letter from the Commissioner of Army Accounts
Document 1784Pierce discusses means by which to ensure the veracity and security of certificates. Pierce also encloses a list of pay stoppages.
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Philadelphia, [undecipherable] September [undecipherable] 1794
Sir
as yours by the last of the [undecipherable] arrived too late to be answered by the same Post, it has given me time [undecipherable] only a [undecipherable] book and you are [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] I have herewith you one dated August 19th 1784 — and will forward you a like minutes in my press book, each question coming in number when this last was dated and dated this day accordingly — by this means in case they should fall into improper hands, [undecipherable] be able to show the things in [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] prevents their being injurious to the public — I [undecipherable] take care not to give any other than I now do[undecipherable] or members — [undecipherable] yourself and [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] my [undecipherable] may [undecipherable] — the form of a register I enclose — a transcript from [undecipherable] as well as the accounts you will please to send to this office for the purposes of understanding the principles [undecipherable] and making the entries in the [undecipherable] Books — I am making out a list of the money claims in the year 1782 & 1783 and am [undecipherable] that considerable inequalities have taken place; and that the general principles of two weeks in the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] and [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] in 1782 & 1784 to the whole [undecipherable] in 1783 [undecipherable] in some instances to [undecipherable] what was actually advanced — the money owing to none both [undecipherable] in this [undecipherable] — I mention this that you may by [undecipherable] certificates [undecipherable], until furnish with the accounts —
I am with great esteem
Your Obt Servt
[undecipherable: signature]
Mr. In consequence of Mr. Morris's desire, I [undecipherable] make [undecipherable] to my [undecipherable] stoppages forms for Wheeler generally to the widowed list — [undecipherable] I wish you to [undecipherable] [I believe the General has [undecipherable] [undecipherable]) — when the [undecipherable] that the money has been stopped it will be necessary for one to give [undecipherable] a certificate to that your part to enable him to apply to Congress for better pay, than [undecipherable] sometimes — I wish to be informed [undecipherable] your power to make the stoppages
Type
Draft Letter / Draft Document
Description
Pierce discusses means by which to ensure the veracity and security of certificates. Pierce also encloses a list of pay stoppages.
Date
09/01/1784
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1784090137001
Page start
1
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Notable persons
John White
John Pierce
Mr. Morris
Mr. Fowler
congress
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
countersign
injuries
register
books
settlements
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