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III. *Estimate* of the Expenses of the *War Department* for the Year 1792. *Pay* of the *Troops.* *Infantry* — *Two Regiments* Dollars Cents 1 Major General ............. at 125 doll^rs per month ........ 1500 2 Lieutenant Colonels Commandants, 60 ..................... 1440 .. 6 Majors ........................ 40 ..................... 2880 .. 1 Quarter Master ................ 60 ...................... 720 .. 2 Inspectors ..................... 30 ...................... 720 .. 4 Aid de Camp ................... 40 ...................... 480 .. 1 Brigade Major ................. 40 ...................... 480 .. 1 Chaplain ...................... 50 ...................... 600 .. 24 Captains ..................... 30 ..................... 8640 .. 24 Lieutenants .................. 22 ..................... 6336 .. 24 Ensigns ...................... 18 ..................... 5184 .. 2 Paymasters ..................... 5 ...................... 120 .. 6 Adjutants ..................... 10 ...................... 720 .. 6 Quarter Masters ................ 5 ...................... 360 .. 2 Surgeons ...................... 30 ...................... 720 .. 8 Surgeons mates ................ 24 ..................... 2304 .. 96 Serjeants ..................... 5 ..................... 5760 .. 96 Corporals ..................... 4 ..................... 4608 .. 6 Senior Musicians ............... 5 ...................... 360 .. 42 Musicians ..................... 3 ..................... 1512 .. 1884 Privates .................... 3 .................... 57,024 .. Carried forward Doll^rs 102,468 .. *Artillery* — *One Battalion* Dollars Cents Brought forward 102,464 1 Major Commandant ......... at 45 dollars per month ......... 540 . 4 Captains ..................... 30 ....................... 1440 . 8 Lieutenants .................. 22 ....................... 2112 . 1 Adjutant ..................... 10 ........................ 120 . 1 Quarter Master ................ 5 ......................... 60 . 1 Paymaster ..................... 5 ......................... 60 . 4 Surgeons mate ................ 24 ........................ 288 . 16 Serjeants ..................... 5 ........................ 960 . 16 Corporals ..................... 4 ........................ 768 . 1 Senior Musician ................ 5 ......................... 60 . 7 Musicians ...................... 3 ........................ 252 . 204 Privates ..................... 3 ....................... 9504 . 16,164. Pay, { Infantry ....... 102,468. { Artillery ....... 16,164. Dollars, .... 118,632 .. The troops on the old establishment, amounting to 430, for which the difference of pay to be added to the new establishment, which for the aforesaid 430 non commissioned officers and privates, amount to: 10,640 .. Dollars, .... 129,272 .. *Deductions.* *For Clothing.* 112 Serjeants, at 1 dollar 40 Cents per month .......... 1881 60 112 Corporals, at 1 .. 15 ............................ 1548 60 7 Senior musicians 1 .. 40 ............................. 117 60 49 Musicians, ......... 90 ............................. 529 20 1848 Privates ......... 90 ........................... 19,958 40 24,032 40 For Hospital Stores. 2128 non commissioned officers and privates, at 10 Cents p^r month 2553 60 26,586. Pay of the Troops Dollars 102,030. *Subsistence* Rations 1 Major General .............. at 16 rations per day ......... 5875. 1 Lieutenant Colonel Command- ant, with the emoluments of a Brigadier General ......... 12. ...................... 4380. 1 Lieutenant Colonel Commandant .. 6 ..................... 2190. 7 c Majors ........................ 4 .................... 10,220. 1 Quarter master .................. 6 ..................... 2190. 2 Inspectors ...................... 3 ..................... 2190. Aid de Camp ....................... 4 ..................... 1460. 1 Brigade Major ................... 4 ..................... 1460. 28 Captains ....................... 3 .................... 30,660. 32 Lieutenants .................... 2 .................... 23,360. 24 Ensigns ........................ 2 .................... 17,520. 2 Surgeons ........................ 3 ..................... 2190. 9 Surgeons mates .................. 2 ..................... 6570. Or money in lieu thereof, at the option of the said Officers at the contract price at the posts respectively, when the rations shall become due. 2128 Noncommissioned officers and privates, at one ration per day 776,720. Rations 836,535. 836,535 rations, at 13½ cents per ration. Dollars, 119,638.97. *Clothing.* 2128, non commissioned officers and privates, 272 Contingencies. 2400. Suits of Clothing at 20 dollars per suit. Dollars, 48,000. *Forage.* Dollars Cents 1 Major General ............. at 20 dollars per month ......... 240. 1 Lieutenant Colonel with the emolument of Brig. General 3 .. 16. .................... 192. 1 Lieutenant Colonel Commandant 12 ......................... 144. 7 Majors .......................... 10 ....................... 840. 1 Quarter Master .................. 12 ....................... 144. 4 Aid de Camp ..................... 10 ....................... 120. 4 Brigade Major ................... 10 ....................... 120. 2 Inspectors ...................... 10 ....................... 240. 2 Surgeons ........................ 10 ....................... 240. 9 Surgeons mates ................... 6 ....................... 648. 7 Adjutants ........................ 6 ....................... 504. 7 Quarter Masters .................. 6 ....................... 504. 3 Paymasters ....................... 6 ....................... 246. 4452. *Hospital Department.* For medicines, instruments, furniture and Stores for the Hospitals ........................................... 6000. *Quarter Master's Department.* Including the transportation of the recruits to the frontiers, the removal of the troops from one station to another, the transportation of clothing, ordnance and military stores for the troops on the frontiers, the necessary removal of ordnance and military stores, the hire of teams and pack horses, the purchase of tents, boats, axes, camp kettles, boards, firewood, company books, stationery for the troops, and all the other expences in the Quarter Master's department: ......... 50,000. *Ordnance Department.* For the salaries of the Storekeepers at the several Arsenals. Viz: Springfield (Massachusetts) ....................... 480. Fort Rensselaer, and its dependencies, (New York) ....................................... 120. Subsistence at one dollar per week ......... 52. .. 172. West point (New York) ............................ 480. Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) ...................... 500. Carlisle ......... ditto .......................... 60. Fort Pitt ........ ditto ......................... 360. New London, (Virginia) .......................... 450. Manchester ....... ditto .......................... 50. Charleston (South Carolina) ..................... 100. Three assistants, one at Springfield, one at Westpoint, and one at Philadelphia at 15 dollars per month each ...... 540. Not included in former estimates. ———————————— 3172. The Salary of Storekeeper at Fort Pitt from 15^th of February to 31^st Decem^r 1791, at 30 dollars per month ........ 315. The Salary of the Storekeeper at Carlisle from 28^th October 1789, to 31^st December 1791, at 5 dollars per month ...... 130,833 445.833 *Rents* Philadelphia .............................. 666.66⅔ New London ................................ 350. Manchester ................................ 66.66⅔ Not included in former estimates. ————————— 1083.33⅓ Carried forward. Dollars ... 4704.17 Dollars Cents Brought forward .... 4705. 17 Rent at Manchester from 10^th June 1787, to 31^st December 1791, as four years, six months and twenty days, at the rate of Doll^rs 66.66⅔ per annum ............................ 305.48. Salaries at the several Arsenals ................. 400. Coopers, armourers and carpenters, employed occasionally at the several Arsenals ................. 600. .... 1000. For armourers at five dollars per month .......... 600. Five conductors of military stores at the rate of twenty five dollars per month, including rations, .............. 600. Dollars, 7204.65 *Invalids.* The annual allowance of the Invalids of the United States from 4^th March 1792, to 4^th March 1793. · New Hampshire ................................ 4074.66⅔ · Massachusetts ................................ 12721. 8 Rhode Island .................................. 2981. Connecticut .................................... 7,227.50 · New York ..................................... 16,188. · New Jersey ................................... 4,474.26⅓ · Pennsylvania ................................. 16,149.32 Delaware ....................................... 2016. · Maryland ..................................... 6,678. Virginia ....................................... 9,485.333 North Carolina ................................. 886. South Carolina .......... conjectural ........... 1000. Georgia ........................................ 624.44 Dollars 37,465.60⅓ *Contingencies of the War Department.* Dollars Cents For Maps, hiring expresses, allowances to officers for extra expences, printing, loss of stores of all kinds, advertising and apprehending deserters. 20,000 . ... *Monies due for former Services, being* Pay *and* Subsistence *of sundry Officers of the late Army of the United States, and for pay of the late Maryland Line, for which no Appropriations have been made.* Pay and subsistence of Jeremiah Green, surgeons mate, quota of Rhode Island, raised under the Act of Congress of the 20^th October 1786 ........ 225. Subsistence due to John Elbert, surgeon's mate to the late 5^th Maryland, regiment, for 1782 and 1783 ................................ 76.85 Pay due Lieut. James Simmons of Col. Washington's Dragoons, for January, February and March 1782 ........................... 100. Pay of sundry officers of the late Maryland Line, for balance of pay due them for 1782 and 1783, as per statement of 10^th July 1787 ...... 406.66. Pay of the noncommissioned officers and privates of said line, for balance of four months pay of 1783, per said statement. .............. 9678.35. Dollars, .... 10,490.36 *Indian Department.* The expenses in the Indian department for the various objects thereof, in the year 1791, as per accounts .......................... 23,424.74 Balance on hand of former appropriations, 30^th March, 1791. ........... 9,000. Balance to be provided for the year 1791. ........................... 14,424.74 *For the year 1792.* — There will probably be required for the various objects of the Indian department, for the ensuing year, the sum of ................. 25,000. Dollars, 39,424.74 *Estimate* of the Expenses which have been incurred for the defensive protection of the frontiers against the Indians, during the years 1790 and 1791, by virtue of the authority vested in the President of the United States, by the Acts relative to the Military Establishment, passed the 29^th September 1789, and the 30^th April 1790, and for which no appropriations have been made. *Accounts actually produced.* *Pennsylvania.* *Alleghany Militia* — *1791.* Dollars Cents From 22^d March to 22^d May, 1 Captain, 2 Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 5 Serjeants, 4 Corporals, 76 privates ............ 1346.96 *Westmoreland Militia* — *1791.* The payrolls, not being correct, were withdrawn, conjectural ...... 2304. 4 *Washington Scouts* — *1790.* Four men, aggregate 325 days .................................. 297.65 *Monongalia Militia* — *1791.* From 15^th April to 12^th July, 1 Ensign, 2 Serjeants, 17 privates ..... 231.60 N.B. 37 men, who left their posts, not included. *Virginia* *Randolph Militia* — *1791.* From 10^th May to 22^d August, 1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Ensign, 3 Serjeants, 2 Corporals, 48 privates ............. 1295.40 Carried forward .... 5,472.55 Brought forward Dollars Cents 5,472. 35 *Ohio Scouts* — *1790.* Eight men aggregate, 364 days .................................. 792. *Harrison Scouts* — *1790.* Eight men aggregate, 300 days ................................. 740.66⅔ Kinhawa Rangers and Scouts .................................... 1165.66⅔ *Mason Scouts* — *1790.* Twelve men aggregate 537 days .................................. 535. 8. These men were not all in service at the same time. *Jefferson Scouts* — *1790.* Fourteen men aggregate 746 days ................................ 632.16. These men were not all in service at the same time. *Lincoln Scouts* — *1790.* Four men aggregate, 376 days ................................... 344.66⅔ *Monongalia Scouts* — *1790.* Six men aggregate, 366 days .................................... 518.82 *Mercer Scouts* — *1790.* Four men aggregate 394 days .................................... 361. 16. *Woodford Scouts* — *1790.* Four men aggregate, 364 days ................................... 321.74 *Rangers* — *1790.* Fifteen men 28 days each ....................................... 90.25 *Militia* — *1791.* From 29^th April to 5^th July, 4 Mayo, 1 Captain, 1 Soutinant, 1 Ensign, 4 Serjeants, 3 Corporals, 50 privates — Pay .... 695.30 1107.29 *Madison Scouts* — *1790.* Six men aggregate, 235 days ................................... 213.58 Carried forward, .... 11,934.94 Virginia Brought forward Dollars Cents 11,934.94 *Bourbon Scouts* — *1790.* Eight men aggregate, 344 days — Pay ............................ 320. The Scouts are a species of patroles, who are the best hunters or woodsmen of the frontiers, and are advanced constantly to discover the traces of the Indians. From the great danger and fatigue of their service, they have been in the habit of receiving from the State of Virginia 5 — 6^th of a dollar per day, while employed. They were adopted for a short space of time by the general government, on an exigency during the spring of the year 1790, as a more efficacious, satisfactory and oeconomical expedient, than calling out the militia promiscuously. *Militia* — *1791.* From 6^th May to 11^th July, 1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Ensign, 3 Serjeants, 43 privates — Pay ................... 446.89 Rations, including the rations for the Militia of Woodford above mentioned ............................. 395.60 1160. 9. *Territory of the United States Northwest of the Ohio.* *Washington Militia* — *1791.* Stationed at Waterford. From 1^st July to 28^th July, 1 Ensign, 1 Serjeant, 1 Corporal, 15 privates — Pay ....................................... 60. Stationed at Marietta — 1791. From 1^st July to 20^th July, 4 Captains, 2 Serjeants, 2 Corporals, 38 privates — Pay ............................. 108. Carried forward. 168. — 43095. 3 Brought forward .... 168. 13095. 3 Stationed at Bellpre — 1791. From 1^st July to 22^d July, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Serjeant, 1 Corporal, 20 privates — Pay ............................. 69.76 Stationed at Marietta — 1791. From 7^th January to 31^st March, 1 Lieutenant, 2 Serjeants, 1 Corporal, 30 privates — pay and rations ......... 630.18. 1791 — From 1^st April to 1^st July, 1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Serjeant, 1 Corporal, 26 privates. — pay and rations .... 625.41. Stationed at Bellpre — 1791. From 9^th January to 1^st April, 1 Captain, 1 Serjeant, 1 Corporal, 22 privates — pay and rations .................. 464.38. 1791 — From 1^st April to 1^st July, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Serjeant, 1 Corporal, 18 privates — pay and rations ............ 363.36. Stationed at Waterford — 1791. From 10^th January to 31^st March, 1 Ensign, 1 Serjeant, 1 Corporal, 20 privates — pay and rations ............... 332.76 1791 — From 1^st April to 30^th June, 1 Ensign, 1 Serjeant, 1 Corporal, 16 privates — pay and rations ............. 222.60 Stationed at Fort Harmer — 1790. From 28^th September to 9^th of November, 2 Serjeants, 2 Corporals, 26 privates — pay ......................... 134.40 3023. 5 *Territory of the United States Noth west of the Ohio.* Lieutenant Colonel Sproat, his pay from 1^st October, to 5^th November 1790, and from 2^d January to 20^th July 1791 ............ 456. Carried forward .... 16,118. 8. Brought forward .... 16,118. 8. *Fort Knox Militia.* These companies were under the command of Maj. Hamtramck. 1 c Major and 1 Adjutant included. 26 and 35 days service — 2 Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 2 Serjeants, 42 privates — pay ............................ 156.36 26 and 35 days service — 1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Ensign, 2 Serjeants, 45 privates — pay .............. 240.86 397.22 *Territory of the United States, South of the Ohio.* *Davidson and Summer* — *1790.* At different periods — 1 Captain, 1 Serjeant, 35 privates — pay ......................................... 239. 2 Rations .... 129.16 368.18 A conjectural estimate of the expence of the Militia, called out by virtue of the orders of the President of the United States, on the 10^th of March 1791, at a time of great alarm upon the frontiers, and before any arrangements of levies could be raised and brought forward for their protection — The accounts of the actual services not being yet produced. This estimate comprehends the several counties, from Fort Pitt to the falls of the Ohio — the counties of Russell, Blythe and Washington in Virginia — and the counties on the territories of the United States south and northwest of the Ohio, not included in the foregoing estimates. .................... 20,000. Dollars, 37,339.48 *Recapitulation.* Pay of the troops .......................................... 102,636. Subsistence ................................................ 119,688.97 Clothing ................................................... 48,000. Forage ....................................................... 4,452. Hospital Department .......................................... 6,000. Quarter Masters department ................................. 50,000. Ordnance department .......................................... 7,204.64 Contingencies of the War department ......................... 20,000. Stated annual expenses. 357,731. 6¼ Extra expenses — Annual allowance to invalids, 37,465.60⅓ Monies due for former services for which appropriations have not been made ............ 10,490.56 Indian department ............................................ 39,424.74 Expenses incurred for the defensive protection of the frontiers, for which appropriations have not been made ..... 37,339.48 175,718. 15⅓ Dollars, 532,449.76⅓ War-Office, October 27^th 1791. (Signed) **H. Knox.** Secretary at War. Treasury Department, *Register's Office,* November 1^st 1791. *I certify,* that the within Statement is a true copy of the original estimate filed on record in this Office. Joseph Nourse, Register.