Enclosure: Account with the United States Government, [14 October 1799]
[Enclosure]
Account with the United States Government3
[Trenton, October 14, 1799]
| The United States | |||
| To Alexander Hamilton for pay as Major General from the first of April to the last of September inclusively 6 Months at 166 Dollars ⅌ Month | Ds. | 996 | |
| Extra allowances as Inspector General at 50 Dollars ⅌ Month | 300 | ||
| Forage at 20 Dollars ⅌ Month | 120 | ||
| Rations at the rate of 15 ⅌ day 2745 Rations at 16.1½ ⅌ Ration being the Contract price at NYork for Postage of | 443.31 | ||
| public letters paid by himself. | 200.57 | 2059.88 | |
| To Thomas How for his pay as Secy from the 11th. of July the time of Acceptance to the last of September inclusively Two months and twenty days at rate of 40 Dollars ⅌ Month | 106.66⅔ | ||
| For Forage for the same time at 8 Drs ⅌ Month | 21.33⅓ | ||
| For Rations for the same time at the rate of three per day, 244 Rations at 16.1½ ⅌ Ration | 39.40 | ||
| For his pay as second Lieutenant of the 11 Regiment from the 5 of August (the time of Acceptance) to the last of September inclusively one Month & 26 days at 25 Ds. ⅌ Month | 47.50 | ||
| Rations for the same time at the rate of two per day 112 Rations at 16.1½ ⅌ Ration | 28.08 | ||
| 242.98 | |||
| To Ethan A Brown as Assistant Secy from the 1st of April to the last of September inclusively 5 Month & 23 Days at 30 Dollars ⅌ Month4 | 173 | ||
| Total Dollars | 2475.86 |
I hereby authorise my Secy. Lieutenant Thomas Brown5 to receive the amount of the within Account for the persons therein mentioned
Trenton October
1799
1799
3. ADf, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
4. On October 31, 1799, in a letter listed in the appendix to this volume, H wrote to Swan that Brown’s account “has been sanctioned at the War office, and that the accountant has been instructed to pass it.”
5. This is a mistake. H should have written “Lieutenant Thomas How.”