Contemporary Copy of Letter

Letter to the Board of Treasury

Letter from the Commissioner of Army Accounts and Paymaster General to the Board of Treasury; discusses commissioners. His assistant, Mr. Howell, is seeking appointment to a newly formed board.

Letter to the Board of Treasury

1787

06

01

Richmond

This document is not signed but is likely by John Pierce.
Partially illegible.

The Board of Treasury

John Pierce

Board of Treasury

clerk

commissioners

Howell

Congress

Richmond

Treasury

expenditures of the stores

complete idea

articles

appointment

commissions

accounts of the states

order of Congress

public office.

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Richmond May 1787
Gentlemen
The business in what I am engaged will between [undecipherable] in greater
proper length return of my leave [undecipherable] them at [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] and [undecipherable][undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] arrangement of the [undecipherable] account order its different [undecipherable]
from the [undecipherable] vouchers, what, As a work of times, is
considerable to that, which [undecipherable] is well requierd to for any [undecipherable]
I had of the difer expenditures of the Stores and [undecipherable]
my reasons for providing in the business in the manner the vouchers for the latter[undecipherable] bring and in the almost irregularly & confusion, in
that I may form a complaint I[undecipherable] of such branch of expenditures,
compare the different promis and regiments and the com[undecipherable]
then of the articles with that of the [undecipherable] Men, and his
informed in [undecipherable] of any [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] andthat has to [undecipherable] plain either on the
payment of monies or the deliveries of the [undecipherable] Horses. [undecipherable] I wish there [undecipherable] in it the
only [undecipherable]effectual [undecipherable], Is En [undecipherable] for me to attmid being otherwise
totalls ignorant of the affairs of that department in what the expenses [- followed by a line with double and triple supscripts that are mostly undecipherable and not in a clear order - ][undecipherable] parties and if necessary to the ward. % [the sign refers to an amendment on the second page]
Mr Howell my assistant has written to me requesting any
to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] your honorable Board, for obtaining
for him, an appointment as one of the few Commissioners
for colluting & arranging the accounts of the States under the late order
of Congress. I have a wish to see a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] deliquences must with the public approbation , and
he has in addition to them the [undecipherable] of having
and for about ten years, in the public Offices, when
accounts of the nature of those now to be settled by for the
States [undecipherable] clearly copied thro' his hands. and
If then [undecipherable] but I cannot [undecipherable] that he will wish
abandon leave any offers in my absence and I have
orders to request that of the Board shall [undecipherable] here as proper person
[page folded in 3 sections: 1. section: letter text, 2. section: administrative note, 3. section: amendments to a paragraph on the first page marked with an "%"]
to quart[undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] appartements that the it [undecipherable] for me
that what will enable him to attend to any business as [undecipherable] during
my absence, for there is no other person so [undecipherable] there and I [undecipherable]
in.


June 1. 1787
To the Bd Treasury
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% I am obliged to go [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of this business with my own
hands, and to make out the copies and [undecipherable] myself what might be
alone by a [undecipherable]. if I ever permitted to have one from my Office
men at this late period of the business the public would be [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] as it would greatly forward the [undecipherable] my return