Letterbook

Financial Matters

Informs the Secretary of War that Major General Anthony Wayne has been directed by the Paymaster General for sums of money to furnish the pay, subsistence, and forage of the Army. Discusses additional financial information.

1795

02

15

War Accountant's Office

Addressed to Secretary of War

Secretary of War

James McHenry

William Simmons

General Anthony Wayne

Doctor Allison

Congress

Paymaster General

Commissary General

Quartermaster Generals Department

Hospital Department

Commissary of Indian Goods

Director of the Laboratory

Wells

C Miller

interpreter

Hicksman

J Miller

spies

missionaries

Lewis Morgan

Barabas McHenry

Indian Captives

Indians

hospital storekeeper

nurses

matrons

Treasury Department

Department of War Accountant's Office

headquarters

Vincennes

Kaskaskais

sums of money

pay, subsistence, and forage

pay and forage

Indian Goods

pay

contingencies

subsistence

claim

expenditure

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Department of War
Accountant's Office
February 15th 1796
The Secretary of War -
Sir
General Wayne handed me a letter directed to him by the Paymaster General of the Troops of The United States wherein he states the necessity of immediately furnishing him with the following sums of Money to enable him to compleat the Pay Subsistence and Forage of the Army to the 31st October 1795 viz +/-
This sum he paid the Commissary General for the purchase of provisions, 3057.00
" The Quarter Master General's Department, 4000.00
" The Hospital Department, 600.00
" The Pay and forage of the Commissary of Indian Goods, 260.00
" The ExtraPay of the Director of the Laboratory, 90.00
" The Pay of Wells and C Miller Interpreters, and of Hickman & J Miller, Spies at Head Quarters and of two Missionaries at Vincennes and Kaskaskais, $1265.00
" The Pay of Levi Morgan, and of Barabus McHenry for bringing Indian Captives to Head Quarters agreeably to the proclamation of General Wayne, and Sundry other Contingencies, 814.00
Dr. 10,986.00
In addition to the foregoing he requires the sum of 8000 Dollars to make good difficiency's in the Estimates for the year 1795, 8000.00. For the susbsistence of the Officers of the four Sub-Legions and the Battallion of Artillery for 1795, 5000.00
Carried forwd, 23,086.00 427
Amount Brot Forwd 23,086:
Docr Allison's Claim for the Pay of an Hospital Storekeeper, and a number of Nourses and Matrons employed in 1795 Amounting to 533.00
Dollars 23, 619.00
The three first sums amounting to 7,657 Dollars should be refunded from the Treasury Department to be charged to the proper heads of expenditure there; they being advanced by the Pay Master out of monies transmitted to him from this Department on account of Pay Subsistence and forage of the Army, for Items of expenditure not proper to be settled here. The Balance being 15,962 Dollars, will compleat the pay of the Troops to the 31st October last. There will then remain due to the Army: Pay, Subsistence and forage for the months of November & December 1795 and January 1796 which at the sum of 18,136 Dollars per Month (the sum estimated by the Paymaster makes the sum of 54,408 Dollars) This sum together with the above Balance amounts to 70,370 Dollars which sum will compleat the Pay, Subsistence and forage of the Army to the 1st of the present month (after adding thereto the sum stated to be proper to be advanced from the Treasury Department) From the foregoing you will observe that the Army are now upwards of Three Months in arrears exclusive of the sums stated to be requisite for the compleating the Pay up to the 1st November 1795 . I have thought proper to mention this subject, as The Act of Congress of the 7th June 1794, enacts that the Army after that period should at no time be longer than Two months in arrears. The foregoing is respectfully submitted to the consideration of the Secretary of War.
I am Sir &c William Simmons

The Secry of War