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composed those Companies, and are certified to be on Detachment
and Party, have likewise been stationed at Fort Cumberland; and
that this Matter may more clearly appear to the House, your Com-
mittee have drawn up Lists from the Muster Rolls of Capt. Alexander
and Joshua BealPs, Capt. Pearis's and Ware's Companies, shewing
the State and Condition each Individual Person appeared in at the
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L.H.J.
Liber No. 49
Nov. 11
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Time of the several Musters made for the Months of June, July,
August, and September; from which Lists (herewith delivered in) it
will appear, that except in a very few Instances, the same Men that
were certified to be on Detachment, Party and Ranging, at their
Muster in June, have continued in the same Employment through all
the subsequent Musters till the 8th September; nor does it appear to
your Committee, from any Papers submitted to their Perusal by the
Agents, in what Service they were employed during the Time afore:
said. Your Committee further observe, in the Course of their Ex-
amination, that the following Charges have been made and paid by
the Agents, which they think not warranted by the Laws; and there-
fore Report it to the House, that they may judge of the Reasonable-
ness or Expediency of them.
In the Subsistence Account, there are Charges for the Provision
found Four Women to each Company, amounting in the Whole to
£ 204 173. In the Hospital Account, Wages paid to sundry Nurses to
the Amount of £25 12.
In Fort Account, to sundry Women officiating as Cooks, £ 19 10.
To John Linginfelter, Baker, £ 7 4 for 48 Days Baking Bread at 3 s.
p Day.
That by the Hospital Account, it appears, the Sum of £167 17 6
has been allowed and paid the Commissary, being 6 d. p Day for
6715 Days of sick Men, over and above the 9 d. p Day Subsistence-
Money allowed them by the Law.
That the Gun-Smith or Armourer, besides his Wages of 2s 6 p
Day, has been allowed and paid his Account for mending Soldiers
Arms to the Amount of £32 5 2 and for other small Services done
for and about the Fort £1779.
In the petty Charges and Expresses Accounts, several sums have
been paid to sundry Persons, who have been employed in carrying
Money from the Agents to their Managers at the Fort, and other
Services, amounting to £29 18 of which Sum £18 15 arises due for
an Express sent to Philadelphia with a Letter to a Gentleman, offer-
ing to contract for 1000 Stand of Arms, and one of the Agents Ex-
pences in going thither himself to compleat the Contract for said
Arms. Thirty-five Shillings paid by the Agents to Mr. Michael
Macnemara for a Copy of the Law, and Twenty Shillings to Mr.
Edward Dorsey for drawing the Form of a Bond to be taken from
the Recruiting Officers.
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