Funds for General Wayne's Army and Volunteers

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W.D. Accountants Office September 27^th 1795 Sir In pursuance of your request as noted in my letter of Yesterday I have the honor to inform you that the sum required is contemplated to be expended for buildings, repairs and articles directed to be made and purchased by the President the sum of . . . . Dollars 5000 For pay of the Army & for bounties to recruits . . . 3000 " Subsistence of Officers . . . . . . . . 1000 " Incidental & Contingent expences . . . . 1000 Dollars . . 10000 The Treasurer informs me that he has in his hands as Agent for the Department of War the sum of three hundred and ninety dollars & [undecipherable] 64. The Sec^ty of the Treasury I am Sir &c Joseph Howell

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Author's Letterbook Copy

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The sum of $90,000 is requisitioned for the pay of the mounted volunteers of the expedition under the command of General Wayne and for the pay, subsistence, and forage of the Army.