Accounts and Money Received from Sale of U.S. Lands
Document 1798Request that no further bills be drawn against Pittsburgh office until credit for sale of lands is applied to account. Additional requests from Gen. Nevill regarding account information, money to be received, credit to accounts, etc. Request to remain informed on all money matters.
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dollars & [undecipherable] which he received for the sale of Lands belonging to the United States, and which the Secretary wishes to draw into the Treasury.
He requests me to take measures for preventing any more Bills from being drawn here for the Quarter Masters Department from Pittsburgh, until this sum is received and applied. General [undecipherable: probable reading Neville] be informed by the Secretary of the Treasury that he is to receive Bills drawn by authorized Agents of the Quarter Masters Department to the extent of the fund above mentioned, and I am requested to inform him what Bills, and to what extent he may receive. In pursuance of this plan I shall write to General [undecipherable: probable reading Neville], to receive your drafts for the sum in question, and forward them to the Treasury, as they are received and [undecipherable: probable reading pass'd] that they may be [undecipherable: probable reading carried] to the debit of the Department. This will supersede the necessity of your drawing here or else where until the fund thus provided is exhausted
You will [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
in consequence of this arrangement—
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Sir,
Your most Obedient Servant
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[Major Isaac Craig.]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Request that no further bills be drawn against Pittsburgh office until credit for sale of lands is applied to account. Additional requests from Gen. Nevill regarding account information, money to be received, credit to accounts, etc. Request to remain informed on all money matters.
Date
09/12/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Collection
Document number
1798091228101
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Craig to Hodgdon, 09/21/1798.
Notable persons
Isaac Craig
Samuel Hodgdon
Nevill
Quartermaster General
Secretary of Treasury
Secretary of War
agents
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Treasury
Quartermasters Department
Notable items
account
money

