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To enable you to make the proper deductions from the pay of the troops, the accountant to the department of War will transmit you a schedule of all advances which have been made by said department on account of pay, and also and account of the times to which the respective Corps and Regiments have been settled [flourish] for the amount of this schedule, you will be considered as accountable. On the receipt of this schedule from the Accountant of the War department; you will arrange the charges into classes and will transmit to the respective paymasters, and officers [undecipherable] to account the sums chargeable against the several Regiments & Corps to which they respectively belong; at the same time informing them, that it will be expected, that they state the proportions which are to be deducted from the pay of each individual, on the payrolls which shall be presented for your examination,

For the purpose of enabling the Accountant of the War department, to close the accounts depending in his Office, it would be indispensible that an Account [undecipherable] should be stated with each