William Simmons discusses pay, finance and accounting with Secretary at War: Page #1

William Simmons discusses pay, finance and accounting with Secretary at War: Page #1

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140 The secretary of war Accountants office February 12th Sir When your letter of this date was handed I was preparing an answer to that of the 4th December last accompanied a list of the names of the officers and soldiers of the late Virginia line cutoff the laws thereof are entitled to bounty land. With your request to give same a careful examination, with the records of papers and papers in this office note opposite each name the period of service when the documents in this differ from the Virginia return. I as early as possible preceded to the required examination to be made and here with transmit you that of an examination, buy one of my clerks of some of the names extracted from register of the masters on file in this office, which are very defective. Cutoff settlement made by the state of Virginia period by which you will observe impossible to note with accuracy, the period which each man served cutoff the regiment and species of troops not being annexed to the names in the cutoff Virginia period line it frequently occurs in the course of the examination, that number of men of the same name have served in as many different and for different periods, consequently it is impossible to know unless cutoff regiment was mentioned in the Virginia list, to which of those I made annex the period of service line and was this obstacle removed line cutoff Asian would be difficult and consume a great length of time line reference also we had to all the settlements made with the Virginia officers cutoff great part of which are filed at the Treasury Department, for Congress cutoff the defect of the musters and returns of the Virginia line, directed by cutoff resolution of the first June 17 84. That in settling the accounts of the army, the paymaster general be authorized to settle with the cutoff officers on their oath. And with the non-commissioned officers and cut off on the certificate of the field officers who commanded them. Those cutoff work accordingly when the musters were lost or defective, and are filed with the accounts at the Treasury Department. I would