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Drummond, who are engaged in a 
contract with government to make 
thefe remittances for a commiffion 
of one and a half per cent. clear of 
all fees of office and expence of 
‘tranfportation. All this money. 
paffes from the exchequer, through 
the hands of the paymaiter general 
of the forces, to the remitters, and 
from them to their agents in North 
- America; who pay it to thé de- 
puty paymaiter general of the forces 
refiding in that country. It pafles 
from the exchequer to the remitters 
in the following manner : 
When the commander in chief in 
North America fends to the agents 
# requifition, {pecifying a certain 
fum to be wanted for the extraor- 
dinary fervices of the army for the 
en{uing quarter, the agents, in con- 
fequence of this requifition, draw 
bills upon the remitters, and tranf- 
mit to them the requifition, with a 
lift of the bills annexed; upon the 
receipt of which, the remitters ap- 
‘ply by memorial to the lords com- 
miffioners of the treafury for money 
to extinguith thofe bills, and re- 
ceive from them a warrant upon 
the paymatter general of the forces 
for the payment of a fum upon ac- 
count, for the ufe of his majefty’s 
forces in North America: this war- 
rant being fatisfied by the iffue from 
the exchequer to the paymafter ge- 
neral, in confequence of a. treafury 
letter and order of the auditor, the 
paymafter general gives to the re- 
mitters his draft for it upon the 
bank. If the commander in chief 
makes no requifition, the agents 
themfelves fend to the remitters an 
account of what money will be 
wanted, and they apply for it to 
the treafury, and receive it in like 
yanner from the paymatter gene- 
ya} of the fogces, INS. 
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There are two ways by which 
this money goes from the remitters 
into the hands of their agents: the 
one is by bills thus drawn by them 
upon the remitters; which bills 
they receive the value for there, and 
the remitters difcharge when pre- 
fented to them in London: the 
other is by fending out to them ac- 
tual cath; this is done according to 
{pecial directions given for that pur- 
pofe by the lords of the treafury to 
the remitters, whenever it becomes 
neceflary to fupport the exchange 
by increafing the quantity of cur- 
rent cafh in the hands of the agents. 
Having thus traced this money 
into the hands of the deputy pay- 
mafter general abroad, our next ftep 
was to fee by what means, and for 
what purpofes, it was taken out of 
his hands: lieutenant general fir 
William Howe, late commander in 
chief of his majefty’s forces in North 
America, and lieutenant general earl 
Cornwallis, fupplied us with this 
information. 
This money cannot be iffued by 
the deputy paymaiter general, with- 
out the authority of the commander 
in chief, exercifed either by himfelf 
or by fome general officer to whom 
he has from neceflity delegated that 
authority. ‘There are certain de+ 
partments in the army, to the pre- 
fiding officers of which is entrufted 
the expenditure of fo much of the 
ublic money as the fervice of thofe 
Broil departments requires, and 
who are accountable to the public 
for all they receive; thefe officers 
are, the fecretary to the commander 
in chief, the paymafter of the pro- 
vincijal forces, the quarter mafler 
general, the barrack matter general, 
the commifary general, the chief 
engineer, the {uperintendant of In- 
dian affairs, the bridge matter, the 
purveyor; 
