Relations between War and Treasury Departments
Document 1798Requests additional infantry. Lists several [illegible] figures with the Treasury.
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War Department,
September [undecipherable] 179[undecipherable]
Sir:
I have the honor to enclose a detailed acco[unt] of the [undecipherable] that might be required as the department of [undecipherable], at certain periods within [undecipherable] the first [nine?] Months of the ensuing [Year?], and the [funds?] to which [undecipherable].
It is unnecessary to remark, that this detail does not state the [undecipherable] at which any given sum is payable; for the Subsistence and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] Clothing and Subsistence of the non-commissioned officers and [Privates?] of the [twelve?] additional Regiments of Infantry.
It may not be proper to observe that the calculations relative to the Bounty, Pay, Hospital and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] additional Regiments, is made upon the [supposition?] [that?] the [undecipherable] will commence as follows [undecipherable]: You will [receive?] [undecipherable] November [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1793 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and in March [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] that the moneys for the bounty, pay, hospital and Quarter masters [undecipherable] [should?] in [each?] case [be?] [appropriated?] [sometime?] previous to the time stated [above?].
[I have also?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [following?] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] following in October [undecipherable] Dollars in November [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] December [undecipherable] Dollars in January [undecipherable] Dollars in February [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Dollars in March [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Dollars in December [undecipherable] Dollars in November for [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] Dollars in January [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] on April for the same [amount?] [undecipherable] Dollars on May for [undecipherable] Dollars and on June for [undecipherable] Dollars.
Adding these several Sums to the Sums [undecipherable] in the [table?] there will be needed for September [undecipherable] Dollars for October [undecipherable] Dollars for November [undecipherable] Dollars for December [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for January [undecipherable] Dollars for [the?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Dollars for April [undecipherable] Dollars for May [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] Dollars for June [undecipherable] Dollars.
Of [however?] it is within the power of the Treasury to [furnish?] the moneys for initiating, [keeping?], clothing, [undecipherable] the additional [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the amount as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable].
I have [emphasized?] that the [items?] in the [table?] [for?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Expenses?] for the [eight?] additional [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Establishment?], and in the [organized?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be [covered?] by the [appropriation?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the [twelve?] Regiments well [undecipherable] [undecipherable] all the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable].
That [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with the [management?] [undecipherable] for the [80,000?] [undecipherable] of [Arms?] while the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as a [County?] charge [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] contains a [requirement?], there will be [needed?] for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [exhibiting?] [terms?], [undecipherable] that it would be prudent [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable].
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [calculate?] [undecipherable] Thousands [undecipherable] are paid [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] hundred, for [undecipherable] [Tables?] at one Dollar [undecipherable]. The [amount?] [undecipherable] for April [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] in August [undecipherable]
I am Sir,
with great respect
Your obt. Servant
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Requests additional infantry. Lists several [illegible] figures with the Treasury.
Date
09/03/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Repository
Collection
Document number
1798090300201
Page start
1
Note
Illegible document.
Notable persons
Oliver Wolcott
James McHenry
Notable locations
War Department
Treasury Department


