State Accountability for Receipts
Item
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Title
State Accountability for Receipts
Description
Howell asks whether it is requisite to require a State to produce receipts in response to a demand by the State for pay due to her militia.
short description
State Accountability for Receipts
year created
1794
month created
03
day created
17
author
sent from location
Accountant's Office
recipient
in collection
in image
notable person/group
Oliver Wolcott
Joseph Howell
Colonel Seth Warner
State of Vermont
Mr. Tolman
officers
notable location
Accountant's Office
Vermont
Connecticut
notable item/thing
abstract for depreciation
pay
document number
1794031721055
page start
58
transcription
57 W.D. Accountants Office March 14th, 1794
Sir Inclosed you will receive an abstract for depreciation which appears still due sundry Officers of the Regiment lately commanded by Col. Seth Warner. it appears by sundry papers herewith that the State of Vermont had settled with those officer on principles exceedingly injurious to their Interest by only allowing them pay on the establishment in place of that authorized under the Act of Congress of the 7th October 1776. They therefore laid their pretentions to a further allowance before the Comptroller who being of opinion the claim was equitable he transmitted the papers to me for a revision, which I have now done, but you will observe not on the principles formed in the Statement made by Mr. Tolman, for I conceive by adopting his method it would be doing Justice only by halves, as the officers would be deprived of their pay from the 1st Jany to 31st of August 1777. I have there fore admitted their pay from the 1st Jan to the 1st August 1780 and taken the Seale of Connecticut as my guide for the Nominal money received
I am Sir &c Joseph Howell
The Auditor of the Treasury
Sir Inclosed you will receive an abstract for depreciation which appears still due sundry Officers of the Regiment lately commanded by Col. Seth Warner. it appears by sundry papers herewith that the State of Vermont had settled with those officer on principles exceedingly injurious to their Interest by only allowing them pay on the establishment in place of that authorized under the Act of Congress of the 7th October 1776. They therefore laid their pretentions to a further allowance before the Comptroller who being of opinion the claim was equitable he transmitted the papers to me for a revision, which I have now done, but you will observe not on the principles formed in the Statement made by Mr. Tolman, for I conceive by adopting his method it would be doing Justice only by halves, as the officers would be deprived of their pay from the 1st Jany to 31st of August 1777. I have there fore admitted their pay from the 1st Jan to the 1st August 1780 and taken the Seale of Connecticut as my guide for the Nominal money received
I am Sir &c Joseph Howell
The Auditor of the Treasury
Item sets
Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (1 pages) | YGA01 (408 pages) | Collection: Numbered Record Books, 1775-1798. (RG93) (M853) | V:137; P:57 |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Joseph Howell | Accountant's Office | [n/a] |
| Recipient | Oliver Wolcott, Jr. | [unknown] | [n/a] |