Receipt roll received
Document 1799Informs Ensign Boote that the Accountant's Office has received his letter enclosing his receipt roll for the month of January.
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Department of War
Accountants Office
March 20th 1799
Sir
I have received your letter 18th Inst inclosing your Receipt list for the month of January 1799 which has undergone examination & found correct. the amount therein receipted being one hundred & Ninety three Dollars & Sixty one Cents, will be accordingly entered to your Credit on the books of this Office.
Advances of money for Recruiting &c. are made by the Secretary of War, to whom application must be made for that purpose —
I am
Sir
Your Obedt Hble Servt
In lieu of the Accountant
Peter Hagner
Pr. Acct
[address leaf:]
[postal seal]
Lieutt William A. Book
New Town
Pennsylvania
[Department of War
Accountants Office
to]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Capt. Henry?
[notation, right margin:] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Virginia
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Informs Ensign Boote that the Accountant's Office has received his letter enclosing his receipt roll for the month of January.
Date
03/21/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Dept of War, Accounts
Collection
Document number
1799032115001
Page start
1
Notable persons
William Rowland Boote
Peter Hagner
Secretary of War
[James McHenry]
Notable locations
New Town, Pennsylvania
Accountant's Office
Notable items
Receipt roll
examination
recruiting