256 N° III. Joseph Howell, acting Paymaster General, in Account with the United States . . . . . Dr. To Balance of Account ending the 28^th February 1790, as stated at the Treasury, per Auditor's report N° 179, dated 9 March, 1790: 105,263.62 To Amount of the following Warrants in his favor on Samuel Meredith, Treasurer of the United States, Viz: N° 709 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1242.– 506 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2500.– 012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818.– 658 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2438.– 662 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1906.20 714 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.– 733 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3000.– 734 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,008.– 737 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3000.– 739 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,926.– 775 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000.– 785 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3000.– 835 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6000.– 877 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5000.– 929 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000.– 930 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,002.20 935 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000.– 949 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000.– 982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000.– 1014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,500.– 1034 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,500.– 1044 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8000.– 1065 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000.– 1084 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000.– 1099 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,387.44 Carr'd forward 252,712.84 105,263.62 Brought forward 252,712.84 105,263.62 Amount of Warrants in his favor on Sam: Meredith, [undecipherable] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000.– 1167 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,500.– 1183 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000.– 1220 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,000.– 1229 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,554.59 1231 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000.– 1240 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000.– 1246 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,296.53 1300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328,563.96 To amount of Warrant, N° 2152, dated 12^th October 1792, being for monies received from the 20^th September 1791, to January 3^d 1792, from the Bank of North America, by virtue of letters of credit from the Secretary of the Treasury . . . . . . . . . . 160,395.50 N.B. Six thousand dollars of this sum received by the acting Paymaster General, the 3^d January 1792, is not included in his accounts, as the receipt thereof was subsequent to the period to which they are rendered. To this sum placed to his debit, on the books of the Treasury, for monies advanced to the following Officers, by John Habersham, Agent for supplying the troops in the State of Georgia, Viz: Captain John Smith . . . . . 324.– Joseph Savage . . . . . . . . 25.– Henry Burbeck . . . . . . . 310.– 659.– Dollars 588,082.14 Joseph Howell, acting Paymaster General, in Account with the United States — Cr. By amount of his disbursements from March 9^th 1790, to 31^st December 1791, arranged under the following heads, Viz: Pay of the troops and militia, including the subsistence and forage of Officers, and arrears of Clothing due to sundry persons . . . . . . . . . . Dollars 344,823.74 From which deduct as follows, Viz: This sum repaid by Samuel Armstrong, late paymaster of the 8^th Massachusetts regiment, being a balance of pay remaining in his hands, on settlement of his accounts . . . . 256.40 Ditto recovered of Oliver Bliss, administrator to the estate of Isaac Hubbell, for the balance due on account of the accounts of the latter, as paymaster to the second regiment of Artillery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977.96 Ditto refunded by George Foster, for so much overpaid him, in the balance of pay due to Edward Barnard deceased . . . . . . . 10.– Ditto repaid by Major J. P. Wyllys, being a balance in his hands, on the settlement of an Account for the pay of troops under his command . . . . . . 752.60 Ditto repaid by John Bell, paymaster to the Kentucky militia, being the pay of sundry guides who had been previously paid . . . . . 167.66 Ditto refunded by John Stryer, Adjutant to sundry soldiers, for so much paid him on account of Thomas [undecipherable] Jones, one of his Adjutants, who has been previously paid . . . . . . 53.33 Carried forward . . . 2263.4 344,823.74 Brought forward . . . 2265.4 344,823.74 This sum overcharged in Vouchers, N° 116 and 120 . . . . . . . . . 6.– Ditto returned by William Findley, a pay due to sundry absentes of the Pennsylvania militia, being a part of dollars 5339.70 received by him for the pay of said militia . . . . . . . . . . 394.9 Ditto received of Major Samuel Trispcott for the balance of his account, to the time of his resignation . . . . . . . . . 22.48 Amount of errors and overcharges, in the pay of sundry soldiers, per list . . . . . . . . . 56.34 2,690.93 342,132.79 By Contingencies of the War Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1493 Ditto of War Department . . . . . . . . . . . 11,833.98 From which deduct this sum, being a balance due by Constant Freeman, on the settlement of his Account of Expenditures . . . . . . 243.32 11,600.66 By Quarter Master's department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,166.20 Indian d° . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,579.72 By Hospital Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,924.29 Deduct an error of addition on Fort M'Scott's account for medicines and attendance . . . . . 2.68 4,921.55 By Surveying Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.– Ordnance d° . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,455.29 Deduct an overcharge in Joseph Branch's account . . . . .80 1,455.49 By Bounties advanced for the recruiting service and premiums to Officers for enlisting men . . . . . . . . . . 25,792.– Deduct this sum repaid by Lieut Matthew Ernest, being the balance of his recruiting account . . . . . 124.– 25,668.– By Subsistence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,917.37 By Arrears of pay and subsistence due to sundry Officers and privates of the late army in the years 1782 and 1783 . . . . . . . . . . . 1,346.10 Carried forward . . . . . . 506,664.82 Amount brought forward . . . . . . 506,664.82 By the following sums advanced to the undernamed persons, pursuant to instructions received from the Secretary of the Treasury, Viz: John Hopkins, loan Officer for the State of Virginia, to discharge the arrears of pay and subsistence due to the Officers and privates of the late line of said State . . . . . . . . 22,213.51 William Skinner, loan Officer for the State of North Carolina, to discharge the arrears of pay due to the non commissioned Officers and privates of the late line of said State . . . . . . . . . . . 17,320.66 39,534.17 By this sum charged to him for monies advanced the following Officers, by John Habersham, agent for supplying the troops in the State of Georgia, for which he is now entitled to credit, the Officers being respectively held accountable therefore, on the books of the Pay Office, Viz: Captain John Smith . . . . . 324. Joseph Savage . . . . . . . . 25. 349.– By this sum placed to his credit on the books of the Treasury, being so much accounted for by Captain Henry Burbeck, agreeably to the Auditors report N° 2989 . . . . . . . . . . 310.– By Balance due to the United States, 31^st Dec. 1791 . . . . . . . 41,227.14 588,082.14 The foregoing is the Copy of a Statement just completed in this Office, although it has not yet been reported on by us to the Comptroller of the Treasury. I believe it to be correct and now forward it for the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 13^th instant. It may be proper to observe, that the credits comprised under the different heads, have been collected and arranged from the Accounts and Vouchers of M^r Howell, and that they are composed independent of advances made to persons, who had not accounted for the applications, at the time, to which Statement extends. Treasury Department, Auditor's Office 24^th November 1792. [Duplicate] R. Harrison, Auditor