Polk's pay as agent
Document 1796Notification that he will be paid for acting as an agent for the War Department in the receiving and paying of monies.
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John Chester Esqr
Supervisor
Weathersfield
Connecticut
Accountants Office
Septr 6. 1796
Sir
You will receive from the Treasurer of the United States the sum of one hundred & four Dollars, which you will please to pay to Captain Edward Miller; being for the pay of himself & men at Middletown for Augt 1796 and take his duplicate Rect for the due application thereof.
I am &c.
Wm Simmons
Acct
Lieutnt Jonas Robeson
Whetstone Point
Maryland
Accountants Office
Septr 6. 1796
Sir
I received your letter of the 1st inst enclosing your Rect Roll for July & Muster Roll for August 1796. The Rect Roll has been examined amounting to Eighty nine Dollars which will be passed to your Credit on the Books of this Office. You have omitted sending the pay roll for the month of August, which you must forward to this Office before the amount can be transmitted to you.
I am &c.
Wm Simmons Acct
Wm Polk Esqr
Supervisor
Charlotte, No Carolina
Accountants Office
Sept 16th. 1796.
Sir!
The Treasurer of the United will remit you the sum of Thirty [strikethrough: two] three Dollars 82/100 being the amount of your Commissions on receiving & paying monies from this Department between 2nd April 1794 & 21 Feby 1795 for which you will please to forward your Rect
P.S. The Rect for one hundred ninety eight Drs paid John Blakely is not yet come to hand.
I am &c.
Wm Simmons
Acct
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Notification that he will be paid for acting as an agent for the War Department in the receiving and paying of monies.
Date
09/06/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1796090621755
Page start
187
Notable persons
William Polk
William Simmons
treasurer
John Blakely
supervisor Charlotte North Carolina
Notable locations
Charlotte, North Carolina
Accountants Office
Notable items
commissions
monies
receipt

