Providing and Issuing Military Supplies
Document 1799Wilkins presents his plan for providing and issuing military supplies. He asserts that the Quartermaster Genral and Commissary of Military Stores are qualifed to be the best judges of the quality of the articles needed for their departments. He worries that the allotment of wood will not be sufficient for garrisons like Detroit.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Wilkins presents his plan for providing and issuing military supplies. He asserts that the Quartermaster Genral and Commissary of Military Stores are qualifed to be the best judges of the quality of the articles needed for their departments. He worries that the allotment of wood will not be sufficient for garrisons like Detroit.
Date
08/20/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Collection
Document number
1799082060200
Notable persons
Alexander Hamilton
John Wilkins, Jr.
Quartermaster General and his deputies
Commissary of Military Stores
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Notable items
plan for the providing and issuing of military supplies
supplies related to the Ordnance Department
direction of the Armorers and artillery artificers
the Quartermaster General and the Commissary of Military Stores would be the best judges of the quality and kind of articles requisite to their
supply of wood in the "Regulations" will be found too small. below what had been allowed by the British