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BT A Tee OPA PERS; 
at that time upon other fubjeQs, 
under the dire&tions of the former 
act, we availed ourfelves of that 
Opportunity to receive from them 
the information they were able to 
give us, relative to their refpective 
epartments. 
_ We obtained from the treafury the 
lifts of warrants granted by the 
commanders in chief in North Ame- 
yica upon the deputy paymafters 
general there, and tranimitted to 
the lords committioners of his ma- 
jefty’s treafury, from the 1ft of Ja- 
nuary 1776 to the 31ft of Decem- 
ber laft. The total fum contained 
in thefe lifts is 7,725,828/. 125. i¢d. 
‘Of which there appears to have 
been iffued during that period, by 
the commander in chief at New 
York, to the officers or deputies in 
thefe four departments, the {ums 
following: to the quarter maiters 
general, 1,688,379/, 155. 334.3 
to the ‘barrack mafters general, 
662,419.05, 52.4.; tothecommifia- 
ries general, 1,521,076/. gs. 8d.; to 
the chief engineers, 322,308/, 105. 
2;4.; amounting together to the 
fum of 4:194,183/..15 5. 74.2 and 
to have been iffued by the com- 
manders in chief of his majefty’s 
forces in Canada, for the extraor- 
dinary fervices of the army in ge- 
neral in that province, from the 1ft 
of June 1776 to the 23d of October 
1781, the fum of 2,236,029/. 115. 
d. 
; As the deputy paymafters gene- 
ral of the forces abroad tran{mit, 
from time to time, to the pay-oflice 
of the army in England, the war- 
rants of the commanders in chief 
which have been paid by them— 
that we might omit no means of 
information of the fums iffued, we 
procured from the pay office of the 
army a lift of thefe warrants; in 
{31g 
which we find other fums, ifued 
during the fame period, to officers 
in the department of the commiilary 
general, not included in the quar- 
terly lifts received from the trea- 
fury, amounting together to the 
fum of 193,000/4.; ~ whichs being 
added to the fum of 1,521,076/. gs. 
8d. make the total fum, iffued to 
the commifiaries at New York, 
1,714,076/. gs. 84.3 and the total 
fum ifiued to theie four depart. ~ 
ments there, 4,387,1834 15s. 7d. 
We required from the office of 
the auditors of the impreft a lift of 
all thofe perfons who have been 
employed in the expenditure of the 
public money for the army fervices 
in North America, and who had 
either pafled or delivered in their 
accounts to that office fince the 1ft 
of january 1776. We examined. 
the officers whofe names we found 
inferted in thefe lifts, and who were” 
within the reach of our application; 
(that is to fay) Robert Mackenzie, 
efquire, fecretary and paymatter to 
lieutenant general fir William Howe; 
major general fir William Erfkine, 
and William lord Cathcart, quarter 
matters general; lieutenant colonel 
William Shirreff, and major Richard 
England, deputy quarter , mafters 
general. We examined lieutenant 
colonel George Clerk, barrack maf- 
ter general; and John Montrefor, 
efquire, chief engineer, whofe names 
are not in this Tit, their accounts 
not being as yet deliveredin. Da- 
niel Chamier and Daniel Wier, 
efquires, the two commiffaries ge- 
neral during that period, are both 
dead: none of the accounts of ei- 
ther, and a few only of the youchers 
of the latter, are in the auditars 
office; and therefore the article of 
provifions, though a very import- 
ant and expenfive branch of this 
expendi- 
