Papers of the War Department · Estimate of War Department expenses for 1793

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Copy of document

Title

Estimate of War Department expenses for 1793

Description

Estimate of War Department expenses for 1793; describes personnel salaries and location of arsenals.

year created

1792

month created

10

day created

20

author

Henry Knox

recipient

Unknown Recipient

in collection

Second Congress: Transcribed Reports and Other Communications Transmitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of the Treasury, 1st Congress, 3d Session-2d Congress, 1st Session, 1791-1792, Vol. II & 2d Congress, 1st-2d Sessions, 1792, Vol. III; 2d Congress, 2d Session-4th Congress, 1st Session, 1793-1795 Vol IV [2C-A1] (RG 233) {M1268, rolls 4&5}

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Henry Knox

James Simmons

Treasury

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Rhode Island

Connecticut

Vermont

New York

New Jersey

Delaware

Maryland

Virginia

North Carolina

Georgia

New Hampshire

Massachusetts

Fort Rensselaer

New York

West Point

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania

Carlisle

Fort Pitt

New London

Virginia

Manchester

Charleston

South Carolina

Springfield

United States

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hiring expresses

allowances to officers for extra expenses

loss of stores of all kinds

advertising and apprehending deserters

observed upon this article as well as every other of this statement that for every cent expended in pursuance thereof vouchers must be produced at the treasury excepting the sums which may be expended for secret intelligence

names might be important to be concealed

propriety of the small sums

reputation of the commanding officer is pledged to the public

recapitulation

register's office

certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original filed in this office

maps

lease of the buildings occupied for the use of the War Office

office of the accountant of the War department

amount of the lease for the term

indenture

circuit court

clerk of military stores

laborers at the arsenals

coopers, armorers and carpenters employed occasionally

conductors of military stores

rifles purchased

not included in former estimates

repairing of arms

euipments of cannon

cartridge boxes

swords

annual allowance to the invalids

dependencies

pay of the militia and scouts

hospital department

medicine, instruments, furniture and stores for the hospital for the garrisons and posts on the western frontiers

pay and subsistence of a purveyor, assistants and nurses

pack-horses and forage

tents

boats

transportation of the recruits

ordnance and military stores

camp kettles

pack saddles

iron

fuel

board

nails

paint company books

stationery

Indian department

expenses in this department amount

accounts allowed which will be shortly stated

surplus has been paid from the general contingencies of the War Department

impossible to foresee the events which may occasion expenses in this department

reduce them to particulars

sums of the present year

accounts settled at the treasury

salaries of the storekeepers at the several arsenals

general staff

major general

dollars per month

brigadier general

major commandant of artillery

major of dragoons

Quarter Master General

paymaster at head quarters

adjutant general to do the duty inspector

chaplain

surgeon of the staff

deputy quarter master

Aide de camp to the major general in addition to their pay in the line

brigadier majors to act as deputy inspectors in addition to their pay in the line

surgeons-mates for the Hospitals for the Western and southern frontiers

principal artificer

second artificer

first Sub Legion field

majors

sublegionary paymaster

sublegionary quarter master

battalion quarter masters

adjutants

sublegionary surgeon

battalion surgeon's mates

sergeant majors

company of artillery

captain

lieutenants

sergeants

corporals

artificers

privates

musicians

troop of horse

cornet

Farrier

saddler

trumpeter

ensigns

senior musician

buglers

amount of pay of the legion of the United States

first sub legion

second sub legion

third sub legion

fourth sub legion

surgeon to the staff

dollars

carried forward

amount of rations

brought forward

rations per day

garrisons

money in lieu thereof at the option of the officers at the contract price at the posts respectively where the rations shall become due

cavalry

infantry

forage

non commissioned

contingencies

dollars per suit

equipments for cavalry

boots

horseman's caps

such articles as may be lost or worn

horses for cavalry

replace the horses which may die or become unfit for service

additional bounty for which no provision was made

complete the number in lieu of discharged soldiers

those rendered unfit for duty and deserters

including premium

allowing for the difference

defensive protection of the frontiers

Estimate of the expenses of the War Department for the year

Legion of the United States

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