Instructions for Keeper of Military Stores
Document 1796Appoints John Harris Storekeeper of articles pertaining to the Department of War [military stores], and transmits regulations for that office. These address: inventorying & record-keeping, the receipt of items (such as skins) from Indian trading houses, inspections, handling funds, arrangement of stores, safe storage of gunpowder, and salary.
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Letterbook Copy
Description
Appoints John Harris Storekeeper of articles pertaining to the Department of War [military stores], and transmits regulations for that office. These address: inventorying & record-keeping, the receipt of items (such as skins) from Indian trading houses, inspections, handling funds, arrangement of stores, safe storage of gunpowder, and salary.
Date
11/11/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Repository
Collection
Document number
1796111100201
Page start
141
Note
No tif image.
Notable persons
John Harris
James McHenry
Superintendent of Military Stores
President
storekeeper
agent
purveyor
Treasurer of the United States
Quartermasters Department
Ordnance Department
Clothing Department
Indian Department
Commissaries Department
Hospital Department
assistants
Notable locations
War Office
Philadelphia
stores
Indian trading houses
Notable items
appointment
articles
regulations
stores
securities
return
article
repositories
receipts
public supplies
goods
trading houses
credit
quarterly return
skins
peltry
amount of goods
true state and condition
countersigned
articles received
articles delivered
forms
classifications
gunpowder
inspect
salary