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Letter from the Commissioner of Army Accounts

Discusses the money paid to Gates and how it ought to have been handled.

Letter from the Commissioner of Army Accounts

1786

06

16

Office of Army Accounts, New York

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William Windser

John Pierce

Gates

paymaster

Office of Army Accounts, New York

charges

money advanced

settlement

payments

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June 16 1786
Wm Winder
(Copied)
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Office of Army Accounts
N York June 16. 1786
Sir
The enclosed is an account exhibited to me by Col. Dav. Hall for
allowance by Colo David Hall [I have delayed forming]
a judgement on the respective charges until I have
your sentiments and information respecting
them. The money advanced to Yates the Paymr
ought to have been credited to the United States
by him on his settlement with you or the
State — so ought the recruiting advances and he
has produced no certificate that this is the case,
if he has already received a personal credit in any account
settled in the state, he ought not also to be
credited here for the same advances, and if
he has paid money for which no stoppage
has or can be made, it is possible that he may
be considered the loser, because he ought to have
rendered his accounts while it was in the power
of the public to make the stoppage.
His other payments ought to have passed thro'
the departments to which they respectively belong
and I am at a loss what judgement to pass upon them.
Wm Winder Esquire