Defects in the Supply System
Document 1799Discusses duties and salary of Ebenezer Stevens. States: "The necessity of a more adequate organization of our Departments of Military Supplies (to which adequate compensation is an essential idea) presses more and more upon my conviction. The details of execution are extremely defective." Gives examples of defects in the supply system and concludes: "These are small samples of the continual succession of irregularities of which almost every new occurrence furnishes evidence."
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Discusses duties and salary of Ebenezer Stevens. States: "The necessity of a more adequate organization of our Departments of Military Supplies (to which adequate compensation is an essential idea) presses more and more upon my conviction. The details of execution are extremely defective." Gives examples of defects in the supply system and concludes: "These are small samples of the continual succession of irregularities of which almost every new occurrence furnishes evidence."
Date
06/24/1799
Author
Recipient
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New York
Collection
Document number
1799062440200
Note
Copy in the handwriting of Ethan Brown.
Notable persons
James McHenry
Alexander Hamilton
[Ethan Brown]
Ebenezer Stevens
Notable locations
New York
Notable items
Departments of Military Supplies
adequate compensation