Request to Settle Accounts as Remittance
Document 1796Stevens requested that his salary as Supervisor be settled as remittance, notification that his accounts will be made out "half yearly" in the future.
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[Daniel Stevens
received 16o Febry 1796
Ansd 18.]
Dist. South Carolina, Agents
Office, Colln on, 21st Jany 1796
Sir —
Agreable to your Request, I now have the honor of transmitting you, my General Account Current with the War, of Monies remitted me from the Treasury, up to 30th Ult last, also my Particular Account of same nature, Ending 31st Dec. 1795. You will please to observe that as my Commissions on the Account paid to 30th Sept. has already been entered in my Licence Books as Supervisor, and considered as a Remittance, I wish it may be settled in that way. My Commissions now charged on the Dec. July Account, will not appear in my Revenue Accounts, but stand as a debit against the War department, until the Money is remitted, and this Mode I shall observe in future agreable to your instructions contained in your Letter of the 16th Nov last, which I now will prove satisfactory, and had I comprehended your Ideas before, they would have been most certainly complyed with,
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Stevens requested that his salary as Supervisor be settled as remittance, notification that his accounts will be made out "half yearly" in the future.
Date
01/21/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
South Carolina
Document number
1796012170001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Simmons to Stevens 01/21/1796
Notable persons
William Simmons
Daniel Stevens
Notable locations
South Carolina

