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Document 1797Notification to Brigadier General Wilkinson that the Secretary of war will admit his account on the expectation that the general will account to him for monies expended for "secret services" for which he has no vouchers
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of the six months pay and Subsistence can be made to you by producing Vouchers for your payments and stating a Account Current shewing how your pay for that period has been settled. There can be no doubt but that all the emoluments you are entitled to in consequence of the of the Act of the 3d March 1797 are 6 Months pay & Subsistence as also
I am &c.
Wm Simmons
Acct.
Daniel Stephens Esqr Accountants Office
Supervisor St Carolina March 30th 1797
Sir
I received your letter of the 4th inst enclosing the Receipt of John Habersham, Collector of the Customs Savan for three thousand nine hundred & fifty two dollars, being for the Pay &c of the regular Troops in Georgia, for September & October 1796. which sum will be passed to your Credit on the Books of this Office. I am &c.
Wm Simmons
Acct.
Dr John Mdovell Accountants Office
Phileo March 31st 1797
Sir
You having in charge the sum of Five thousand Dollars for the Pay of the Troops on the various Posts of the Ohio, you are hereby directed to deliver the sa[me] to Isaac Craig Esqr at Pittsburg, taking his duplicate receipts expressing to be on account of the Pay of the Ar[my] for which he is accountable to the Accountants of th[e]
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Notification to Brigadier General Wilkinson that the Secretary of war will admit his account on the expectation that the general will account to him for monies expended for "secret services" for which he has no vouchers
Date
03/28/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountants Office
Document number
1797032821655
Page start
425
Notable persons
Brigadier General James Wilkinson
William Simmons
Secretary of War
Accountant
General Wilkinson
James McHenry
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Accountants Office
Notable items
vouchers
secret services
money
account
credit

