Procedures for managing recruit payrolls
Item
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Title
Procedures for managing recruit payrolls
Description
Letter, describes payments to privates and non-commissioned officers; discusses receipts of payments to recruits.
short description
Ltr, des payments to troops & recruits.
year created
1793
month created
03
day created
01
author
sent from location
War Department
recipient
in collection
in image
notable person/group
Captain Alexander Thompson
Joseph Howell
notable location
War Department
New York
notable phrase
on paying your recruits you will take separate receipts for the full amount due to each as appears on the payroll
muster is taken in case of a signature not being written, two respectable witnesses will be required on transmitting each subsequent set of musters the vouchers for the expenditures of the sum previously remitted with a statement of the account received
Act of Congress
assignment of the of the pay of an non commissioned officer or private shall not be valid of course it is intended that the payments shall be made to them personally
Secretary of War having authorized you to muster your recruits and directed duplicate rolls to be transmitted to his office
cause pay rolls to be made agreeably thereto the amount of which will be remitted to you through the supervisor of the revenue for the district of New York
document number
1793030100401
page start
1
number of pages
1
Item sets
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Document instances
| In image | In source | Location in source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [view document] (1 pages) | AQA13 (1 pages) | Collection: Thompson Family Papers | [unknown] |
Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Joseph Howell | War Department | [n/a] |
| Recipient | Alexander Thompson | [unknown] | [n/a] |