Last Quarter's Quartermaster Department Expenditure Estimates; Impossibility of Accurate Estimates for Indian & Hospital Departments
Document 1796Mentions recent bills drawn; discusses estimate of the expenditures of the quartermaster department in the months of October-December of 1796. Comments that it is impossible to estimate the expenditures of the Hospital and Indian Departments at the beginning of a quarter.
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Type
Letter
Description
Mentions recent bills drawn; discusses estimate of the expenditures of the quartermaster department in the months of October-December of 1796. Comments that it is impossible to estimate the expenditures of the Hospital and Indian Departments at the beginning of a quarter.
Date
12/27/1796
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Pittsburgh
Collection
Document number
1796122740101
Page start
1
Note
Partly illegible
Notable persons
James McHenry
John Wilkins
Quartermasters Department
Indian Department
Hospital Department
Daniel Harragan
Deputy Quartermaster General
Notable locations
Pittsburgh
Fort Washington
Detroit
Notable items
expenditures
probable expenditures
post
money
estimates
draft
bills
expenses
corn