Each Officer Must Make Out His Own Payroll
Document 1795Enclosed are some blank payroll forms. It is intended that in the future every officer will make out their own pay rolls and transmit them with their muster rolls at the end of each two-month period. An examination will then take place and the amounts therein will be transmitted in the usual manner.
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Department of War
Accountants Office
April 28 1795
[I transmit to] you some blank pay [rolls, and]
[recommend] that [each] Officer is to make out his
[own] pay Roll and transmit it together with the Muster
[at the] Expiration of every [undecipherable] to this Office
where an Examination will [be] tak[en and] the Amount th[ereof]
[communicated] to you in the same Manner —
[strikethrough: [undecipherable signature]]
Your [ob't] Servant
[undecipherable: Simmons]
Acct.
[Endorsements at bottom, partially illegible:]
[undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
April 28th 1795
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Enclosed are some blank payroll forms. It is intended that in the future every officer will make out their own pay rolls and transmit them with their muster rolls at the end of each two-month period. An examination will then take place and the amounts therein will be transmitted in the usual manner.
Date
04/28/1795
Author
Recipient
Document number
1795042821401
Page start
1
Note
Mostly illegible.
Notable persons
David Hale
William Simmons
Notable locations
Department of War, Accountant's Office