C Estimate of the Expenses of the War Department for the Year One thousand Seven hundred and Ninety four.

The Legion of the United States

Pay.

General Staff - to wit.

Dollars per Month

1 Major General at 166 1.992

2 Brigadier-Generals 55 66

1 Major Commandant of Artillery 55 660

1 Major of Dragoons 55 660

1 Quarter-Master 100 1.200

1 Pay-Master at Head-quarters 60 720

1 Adjutant to do the duty as Inspector 75 900

1 Chaplain 50 600

1 Surgeon of the Staff 70 840

1 Deputy Quarter-Master 50 600

2 Aids-de-Camp to the Major General, in adition to their pay in the Line 24 576

2 Aids-de-Camp, one for each of the Brigadiers, in addition to their pay in the Line 24 576

6 Surgeon’s Mates for the Hospitals for the Western and Southern Frontiers 30 2160

1 Principal artificer 40 480

1 Second Artificer 26 312

14772

Carried forward 14772 14772

First Sub-Legion

Dollars per Month

Field { 1 Lieutnant-Colonel-Commandant at 75 900

3 Majors 50 1.800

2.700

Staff 1 Sub-legionary Pay-Master 10 120

1 Sub legionary Quarter-Master 8 96

3 Battalion Quarter-Masters 8 288

3 Adjutants 10 360

1 Sub-legionary Surgeon 45 540

3 Battalion Surgeon’s Mates 30 1.080

3 Sergeatn Majors 7 252

3 Quarter-Master-Sergeants 7 252

2.988

5.688

One Company of Artillery

1 Captain 40 480

2 Lieutnants 26 624

4 Sergeants 6 288

4 Corporals 5 240

10 Artificers 8 960

40 Privates 3 1.440

2 Musicians 4 96

4.128

One Troop of Horse

1 Captain 40 480

1 Lieutnant 26 312

1 Comet 20 240

Carried forward 1.032 9.816 14.772 1.032 9.816 14.772

Dollars per Month

6 Sergeants 6 432

6 Corporals 5 360

1 Farrier 8 96

1 Sadler 8 96

1 Trumpeter 4 48

65 Dragoons 3 2.340 4.404

Eight Companies of Infantrys

8 Captains 40 3.840

8 Lieutnants 26 2.496

8 Ensigns 20 1920

48 Sergeants 6 3.456

48 Corporals 5 2.880

1 Senior Musician 6 72

15 Musicians 4 720

648 Privates 3 23.328 38.712

Four Companies of Rifelemen

4 Captains 40 1.920

4 Lieutnants 26 1.248

4 Ensigns 20 960

24 Seargeants 6 1728

24 Corporals 5 1440

4 Buglers 4 192

238 Privates 3 11.808

19.296

72.228 Amount of the Pay of the Legion of the United States.

General Staff 14.772

The First Sub-Legion 72.228

Second Sub-Legion 72.228

Third Sub-Legion 72.228

Fourth Sub-Legion 72.228

303.684

Subsistence

Rations

1 Major General 15 Rations per day 5.475

2 Brigadier Generals 12 8.760

4 Lieutnant Colonels commandants 6 8.760

14 Majors 4 20.440

1 Adjutant 6 2.190

1 Pay-Master at Head-quarters 4 1.460

1 Quarter-Master 6 2.190

1 Deputy Quarter-Master 3 1.095

1 Surgeon of the Staff 6 2.190

4 Surgeons 3 4.380

12 Surgeons Mates 2 8.760

6 Surgeons Mates for Garrison 2 4.380

1 Principal Artificer 3 1.095

1 Second Artificer 2 730

56 Captains 3 61.320

60 Lieutnants 2 43.800

48 Ensigns 2 35.040

4 Comets 2 2.920

Carried forward 214.985 Rations

brought forward 214.985

Money in lieu of Rations as by law at the Option of the Officers at the Contract Price at the Post repectively, when the rations shall become due.

240 Privates and non-commissioned of the Artillery

320 Non commissioned and Privates of the Cavalry

4560 Non-commissioned and Privates of the Infantry

5120 Men at 1 Ration 1.868.800

Rations 2.083.785

2.083.785 Rations, at 15 cents per Ration is Dollars 312,567.75

Storage

Staff Dollars per Month Dollars

1 Major-General 20 240

2 Brigadier Generals 16 384

4 Lieutnant-Colonesls Commandant 12 576

13 Majors 10 1.560

1 Pay-Master at Head-Quarters 10 120

1 Adjutant-General 12 144

1 Quarter-Master-General 12 144

1 DeputyQuarter Master General 10 120

4 Aids-de-Camp 10 480

4 Brigade-Majors 6 288

4 Adjutants 6 288

1 Surgeon of the Staff 12 144

4 Surgeons 10 480

12 Surgeon’s Mates 6 864

6 Surgeon’s Mates for Garrison 6 432

4 Pay-Masters 6 288

12 Quarter-Masters 6 864

Dollars 7.416 Cavalry Dollars per Month

1 Major 10 120

4 Captains 10 480

4 Lieutnants 6 288

4 Comets 6 288

320 Privates 6 23.040

24.216

Clothing

240 Non Commissioned and Privates Artillery

320 Non Commissioned and Privates Cavalry

4.560 Non Commissioned and Privates Infantry

5.120

480 Contingencies

Dollars

5.600 Suits at 20 dollars per Suit 112.000

Equipments for the Cavalry

Doll: Cets. Doll: Cets.

13 Officers Equipments at 18.25 237.25

320 Saddles 6.60 2.112. -

320 Briddles 1.66 530.20

320 Cartouch Boxes .80 256.-

160 Sword Belts .56 89.60

6 Bugle Horns 4.- 24. -

320 Pair of Holsters 2.50 800. -

320 Bags 48 153.60

160 Swords 1.44 230.40

160 Pair of Pistols 5. - 800. -

320 Horseman’s Caps 2.50 800. -

320 Pairs of Boots and Spores 4. - 1.280. -

7.314.5 Horses for the Cavalry

160 Horses to replace those which may die or become unfit for Service at 100 dollars Dollars 16.000. -

Bounty

To complete this Number in lieu of the discharged Soldiers, those rendered unfit for duty and deserters in 1793 and 1794 Doll: 5000. -

Hospital Department

For [undecipherable], Instruments and, Stores for the Hospital for the GArrisons and Forts on the Wester and Souther Frontiers, also the Subsistence of a Purveyor-Assistants and Nurses in the Hospital, and examination of Invalid Pensions Dollars 20.000. -

Ordonance Department

For the Salaries of Store-keepers at the different Arsenals

Springfield, Massachusetts

Deputy Store-keeper

West-Point, New York 480

Deputy Storekeeper 240 720. -

Albany, New York 400

Fort Rensselaer and its dependancies, dto 172 572. -

Trenton, New Jersey (to be established)

Commissary of Military Stores at

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

500

Carlisle dto

Fort Pitt dto

360

New London, Virginia 430

Manchester dto 50 480

Charleston, South Carolina

100

3912

Carried forward 3912 Dolls. Cets.

brougth forward 3.912

Rents

Philadelphia 666.66

New London 350. -

Manchester 66.66 1.083.32

Labourers at the different Arsenals 400. -

Coopers and Armourers ad Carpenters, occasionally employed 600. -

Two Conductors of Military Stores 720. - 1.720. - 2.803.32

6.715.32

An Appropriation will be requisite for the following enumerated buildings, repairsand Articles, directed to be made and purchased by the President of the United States.

The Expenses of new CArriages for 230 pieces of Brass Field Artillery at the different Arsenals of the United States averaged at 140 dollars each

32.300. -

The expenses of New Carriages for 134 Iron Cannon with Garrison Carriages, averaged at 50 dollars each

6.700. -

The expense of 20 Mortar Beds, at 40 dollars each

Repairs of 14.000 Arms, at 2 dollars each 28.000. -

} 31.000. -

Cleaning of 12.000 dto 25Cents 3.000. -

In the different Arsenals

Repairs of Fortifications at West Point

10.000. - 80.700. -

The expense of casting 50 Brass Field Pieces out of the useless Mortars

2.500

One hundred Tons of Lead, at 6 2/3 dollars per hundred

17.333.34

Seventyfive Tons Gun-powder, at 20 dollars per hundred

30.000. -

One Thousand rifled Muskets at 12 dollars each

12.000. -

61.833.34 Equipments for Cavalry

Dolls._Cets.

Five hundred equipments consiting of Saddles with girths, Surcingles, Packs and Stirrups, holsters, [undecipherable], halters, Mail pillions and Straps, Valices, Horeseman’s Cartouch Boxes, nose bags, and horseman’s Swords with belts and Scabbards, at 16 1/2 dollars each

8.250. -

Ten thousand knapsacks, at 50 Cents each 5.000. -

Ten thousand cartridge Boxes, at 1 dollar each 10.000. -

Two thousand tents at 10 dollas each 20.000. -

One hundred Horseman’s tents, at 20 dollars each 2.000. -

Seventy Officers’ Marquees, at 150 dollars each 3.000. -

40.000. -

For all Magazine and buildings proper to constitute a Magazine and Arsenal above Albany in the State of New York 5.000. -

For the purchase of Areas of ground for ditto 1.000. - 6.000.-

Dollars 12.000. -

Defensive protection of the Frontiers

Dollars 130.000. -

For the year 1789 there has been paid for the defensive protection of the Frontiers the folloing Sums, all accounts for the Year 1793 have not been presented of adjusted.

Pennsylvania 14.136.46

Virginia 32.191.69

Territory N.W. of the Ohio 4.296.26

Ditto, S.W. of the Ohio 52.338.60

Georgia 7.164.78

For 1792 Dollars 110.127.79

For Scouts 15.000. -

Dollars 125.127.79 The great pay allowed the mounted Dragoons enhnced exceedingly the Amount of expenses for the defensive protection of the frontiers for the Year 1792, and from the present disposition of the Indians, North of the Ohio, ad contiguous to the South West Territory and Georgia, will require an equal or greater Sum for the Year 1794 than wa paid in the year 1792.

Indian Department

For defraying the Expenses of the Indian Department

Dollars 50.000. -

Quarter Master’s Department

Waggons and Horses and forage tents, boats, &c, also the transportation of the Recruits, Ordonance and military Stores, and all the Articles of the Quarter-Master’s Department, the purchase of Axes, Camp-kettles, pack-Saddles, Iron, fuel, boards, Nails, Paint, Companybooks, Stationary &c. Also the payment Subsistence of all Clerks and of the Artificiers employed in said Department

Dollars 150.000. -

The advances made to the Quarter-Master’s department, durinf the present year, amount to Dollars 176.441.9

Appropriation this year 100.000. -

Forage 34.856. - 134.856. -

Deficiency

Dollars 41.585.9

Contingencies of War Department

For Maps, hiring Expresses, allowances to Officers for extra Expenses, printin, loss of Stores of all kind, advertising and apprehending diserters

Dollars 30.000. - Invalid Pensioners

For the annual allowance to the Invalids of the United States, from 5th day of March, one thousand Seven hundred and ninetyfour, to the fourth days of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety five inclisively Dolls. Cets. Dolls. Cets.

New Hampshire 3.770.68

Massachusetts 11. 713.75

Rhode Island 3.119. -

Connecticut 7.127.86

Vermont

New York 16.260.-

New Jersey 4.039.27

Pennsylvania 16.748.32

Delaware 1.844. -

Maryland 4.240. -

Vigrinia 8.028.26

North-Carolina 1.070. -

South-Carolina 1.000. -

Georgia 850.41

80.239.55

Recapitulation

Pay of the Legion of the United States

303.684. -

Subsistence

312.567.75

Forage

31.632. -

Clothing

112.000. -

Equipments for the Cavalry

7.314.5

Carried forward 767.197.80 CI

Brought forward 767.197.80

Horses for the Cavalry

160.000. -

Bounty

5.000. -

Hospital Department

20.000. -

Orndnance Department

6.715.32

Repaires and Articles directed to be made and purchased by the President of the United States

202.783.34

Defensive protection of the Frontiers

130.000. -

Indian Department

50.000. -

Quarter-Master’s Department

150.000. -

Contingencies of the War Department

30.000. -

Invalid Pensioners

80.239.55

Dollars 1.457.936.1

One Million, fhour hundred fiftyseven thousand, nine hundred thirtysix dollars, One Cent. War Department, 10th December 1793 H. Knox, Secretary at War.

Treasury Department, Register’s Office, 14th December, 1793 I certify the foregoing to be a true Copy of the Original on file, inthis Office. Joseph Nourse, Register.

total Dollars 1.457.936.1

Deduct Invalid Persioners 80.239

Leaves Dollars 1.377.697.1