Letter from the Commissioner of Army Accounts
Document 1786Pierce reports the implications of not having information that is necessary to settle individual wartime accounts.
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and I take the liberty to enclose to your Excellency [undecipherable]
[undecipherable], who, for many [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] several years
before the conclusion of [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
on particularly [undecipherable] to account, and times
delayed or refused to render any information
in what manner, if at all, that there have the
stores committed into their hands have
been disposed of — the consequence of which
[undecipherable] that the officers [undecipherable]
had and most probably by the
the money must have been paid, and
had their accounts delayed greatly to their
prejudice, the public, have been denied
that information which is very essential
for checking the original accounts and in
the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], deprived of
many instances, considerable sums, [undecipherable]
[undecipherable]. And chiefly I act for private
some purposes.
As I cannot find that any person has a
compellory power to bring these persons to
account in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Type
Letterbook
Description
Pierce reports the implications of not having information that is necessary to settle individual wartime accounts.
Date
06/24/1786
Author
Recipient
Sent from
office of Army Accounts, New York
Repository
Document number
1786062421001
Page start
1
Note
Nathaniel Gorham, President of Congress 06/06/1786-02/02/1787
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Notable persons
Nathaniel Gorham
John Pierce
congress
Notable locations
office of Army Accounts, New York
