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Unknown [List of expenses for the year 1794]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.06291 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: circa 1794 Pagination: 1 p. ; 19.3 x 20.9 cm. Order a Copy

A list of the sums of money disbursed throughout the year of 1794. The expenses include pay subsistence and Forage of the Legion, clothing, bounty, hospital department, repairs , defence protection, Indian department, quartermaster's department, contingencies of War Department, invalid pensions, naval armament, equipment of galleys, fortification of harbors, Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, defense of Southwest territory, detachment of militia, building and repairing arsenals, national armouries, and arms ammunition. Total sum for the year is $2,197,805.65.

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

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