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Document 1794Letter from the Commissary of Military Stores to Secretary Knox, enclosing a description of the duties of the proposed officer responsible for issuing stores and accounting for them, the quartermaster general.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Letter from the Commissary of Military Stores to Secretary Knox, enclosing a description of the duties of the proposed officer responsible for issuing stores and accounting for them, the quartermaster general.
Date
03/08/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Collection
Document number
1794030840101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Samuel Hodgdon
quartermaster general
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
enclose
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officer recommended by the president and contemplated by the Congress
also what I think he will be
entitled to receive for his services
rations
forage
I mean to extend his care and responsibility to Marine as well as other stores so that Captains of Ships of War as well as officers commanding corps
he himself for the final adjustment of all accounts for the treasury.