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purveyor of the hofpital, and the 
tommiffary of prifoners. 
The commander in chief directs 
¥ioney into the hands of thefe ac- 
eountants, by his warrant to the 
deputy paymafter general, requir- 
ing him to pay to the officer named 
a certain fum for the purpofe there- 
in fpecified. TMefe warrants are 
of two kinds; temporary, and final: 
the temporary warrant is for money 
upon account, and granted upon the 
“pplication of the officer, to enable 
him to carry on the fervice: the 
final warrant is for money to reim- 
burfe the officer expences actually 
incurred, and mentions that the 
vouchers are lodged with that of- 
ficer. 
Every quarter, or as foon after 
us the fervice will admit, thefe, of- - 
ficers make an abftraét of all the 
fms they have expended in their 
{everal departments during that 
quarter, digefted under different 
heads of ex x pence. Every officer 
carries his abftradt to the com- 
fhander in chief for his in{pection, 
and for the purpofe of being reim- 
burfed the amount of that abftrat: 
If, upon examination, no objection 
urifes to any of the articles, he 
grants to the officer a final warrant 
upon the deputy paymatter general, 
for the’ total fum- contained in the 
abftra&t: upon production of this 
Watrant, with the abftraét annexed, 
at the pay office of the army, the 
officer takes up and cancels, as be- 
ing of no ufe, the temporary war- 
, fants he has received in that quar- 
ter; and, deducting from the fum 
in the abftra€t the fums contained 
in the temporary warrants, he re- 
ceives the balance, leaving both the 
final warrant and abftraét with the 
deputy paymafter general; who 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1790. 
fends them every quarter to the 
pay-office of the army in England, 
as vouchers for the paymaiter ge- 
neral of the forces, upon paffing his 
account before the auditors of the 
imprett. 
Through thefe channels is the 
money, granted for the extraor- 
dinary fervices of the army, con- 
veyed into the hands of certain 
officers intrufted with and refpon- 
fible for the expenditure of that 
money: how this expenditure has 
been conducted, was the next, and 
the material fubject of our inquiry. 
The quarter mafter general, the 
barrack maiter general, the com- 
miffary general, and the chief en+ 
gineer, are the officers to’ whofe 
management the greateft fhare of 
this money is committed; and there- 
fore to them we principally directed 
our attention: we examined fuch 
of them as we could find, who ei- 
ther were then, or had been em- 
ployed in thefe departments; and 
collected what information we could 
from the vouchers in their poffef- 
fion, or from thofe they had deli- 
vered into the office of the audi- 
tors of the impreft; all of which 
Were, in confequence of our requi- 
fition, fubmitted to our infpection. 
Having had reafon to believe, be- 
fore the pafling of the laft aét, that 
it was the intention of parliament 
to refer to us the confideration of 
the extraordinaries of the army ; 
and having been informed that bri- 
gadier adictal William Dalrymple, 
quarter mafter general; Peter Pau- 
mier, efq. a deputy commiffary ge- 
neral; and Mr. Abijah Willard, 
commiffary of live cattle to his ma- 
jefty’s forces in North America, 
were then in London, and about te 
return to America—though engaged 
fe at 
