1From George Washington to the Board of Treasury, 30 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
In answer to your question respecting the Sum to be furnished the military Chest, for carrying into execution the Resolve of Congress of the 23d inst. I am to inform you that Five hundred thousand Dollars will in my opinion be a sufficient foundation to commence upon. A farther Supply will be required in the ordinary course, as appears from the following State contained in a Letter from the...
2To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 18 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
Auditor Johnston has represented to this Board that several Pay Masters and other Officers have resigned and quitted the army; without previously settling their accounts. This is an inconvenience which will greatly embarrass and obstruct the system laid down by Congress for adjusting the army accounts through the Auditors: And we beg that your Excellency will be pleased to give the proper...
3From George Washington to the Board of Treasury, 31 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
The want of a Pay Master to that detatchment of the army which lays at and near the Highlands is attended with many inconveniences to the troops, and an accumulation of expence to the public, as the officers are obliged to draw for their pay rolls from this part of the army. Should the Board have no person in view, perhaps it might be eligible to place Mr Reed who is at Albany on this station....
4To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 14 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
By your Excellency’s Letter to Congress of the 4th instt we are happy to be made acquainted that Proposals for an Exchange of Prisoners, by the Commanders in Chief of the American and British Armies, are in the Way of being opened. How far the Subject on which we now trouble Your Excellency may be involved, or ought to be thought of previous to or in any Discussion of this Matter, we cannot...
5From George Washington to the Board of Treasury, 1 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
From the desire and endeavours of many of the soldiery to leave the service where ever they can under the pretext of their having been only temporarily engaged and that their inlistments have expired—and the difficulty of ascertaining the point in most instances on account of their inlistments being lost, or of the resignations or deaths of the Officers who inlisted them, which are the...
6From George Washington to the Board of Treasury, 14 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
Sometime last spring, or early in the Summer, Congress were pleased to authorise me to draw upon the Board of Treasury for a sum in specie not exceeding two thousand Guineas. As it was not my wish to call for more than the exigencies of the particular Service (for which it was intended) required; & as I happened at that time to have part of a former sum by me, I asked for 500 Gs. only with...
7From George Washington to the Board of Treasury, 29 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
You will have heard before this I am persuaded, that an Armament, composed of Land & Sea forces, is soon expected to arrive on the Continent from France, for the purpose of cooperating with us against the Common Enemy. Every exertion will be necessary on our part for the occasion—and the aid of every experienced & active Officer. In this view—and as the Forage department is a most important...
8To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 9 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
We are honored with your letter of yesterday expressing your desire of being furnished with such an account of this Department, as will enable you to form a full, precise and distinct Idea of the various transactions arising under it. It will require some days to make out the necessary Documents, to which such an account must necessarily refer; these are now preparing, and shall, from time to...
9To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 10 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
In conformity to the mode proposed in our letter of yesterday, we have the honor to commence the statement you require of the Department under our direction, with a view of the organization and duties of the Board of Treasury. We have the honor to be with high respect, Sir, Your most Obedient Humble Servants The Board of Treasury of the United States This Board was constituted by an ordinance...
10To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 11 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed paper No. 2, which we have the honor of transmitting, will, with its annexed documents, complete our view of the Constitution, duties and general forms of business of the Board of Treasury and of the offices more immediately connected with it. Were we to pursue strictly our own ideas of order, we should proceed, in the same manner, with the subordinate officers and departments...
11Enclosure: From the Board of Treasury, 11 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
Officers immediately annexed to, or connected with the administration of the Board of Treasury, in paying and receiving public Monies, and passing accounts: and forms of doing business by such officers. The principal Officers under the first description are as follows. A Secretary—whose duty it is to aid the Board of Treasury in such matters, as they may judge requisite for the proper...
12To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed documents marked A. B. C. shew the state of the Domestic Debt of the United States to the 3d day of March last: the arrears of Principal and Interest on the Foreign Debt to the end of the present year: and the annual provision which must be made for the payment of the accruing Interest, and Installments of Principal (agreeably to the respective conventions) to the period of the...
13To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 23 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
No. 6 Sir Board of Treasury [New York City] July 23d 1789. We have the honor of transmitting to you a Report on the General State of the Treasury, with the Official Documents explanatory of the same. We have the honor to be with high respect Sir Your obedient humble Servants Board of Treasury July 22d 1789 On the General State of the Treasury. From the statement made by the register of the...
14To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 14 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
In a communication we had lately the honor of making to you, on the subject of the Foreign and Domestic Debt; we observed that the Indents of Interest computed in circulation on the 12th of June last, was Dolls. 2,128,694, and that this amount might perhaps in future enter into the general mass of the Domestic Debt. We have since directed an Estimate to be made at the Treasury, of the Interest...
15To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 21 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
Mr Secretary Lear having applied to this office for a statement of the Post Office accounts, as entered in the books of the treasury, we do ourselves the honor of transmitting an abstract statement of them to the last of December 1788. No final adjustment has been made of the present Postmaster General’s accounts for the two last years, for the reasons stated in our communication No. 6, on the...