and thirteen soldiers and Servants including Gen! M. P. <le Cos. In all Fifty nine persons without Gen! Cos' servant his servant making Sixty persons-To Wit: [List of 46 signalures, including five colonels and twelve caplains, followed by names of 13 servants l In all Sixty Persons-Officers, Soldiers and Servants- Wm. Hardin r4oBsJ [HUSTON to EDITORS]
To the editors of the Telegraph:
Dear Sirs,- Having noticed a communication in your paper offering at all times to publish any reports of officers or agents of this government, receiving and disbursing money, &c. and believing that all public officers and agents are accountable to the government and people for the public acts, il will therefore at all times afford me pleasure to lay before the people any part of the proeedings of this department. It is not uncommon in a newly established government like this, where the organization of each department has lo be made up at once, to find some errors creeping in, and it is the people's right to require of them frequent expositions, in order to guard their interests and keep the public from being defrauded. It affords me pleasure to state that so far as reports have been made to this Office by Quarter Masters and Assistant Quarter Masters, who have had the honor lo receive and disburse money, that the disbursements have been promplly and properly made: owing to some cause (probably that of the frequent removal of the army) the Quarter Master (at the main army) has not made due returns to this office, but I trust he will, as I have ordered him to do so. The office has undergone two strict examinations, one by a board of officers of the army, and one by a committee of three appointed by his Excellency the President of this Republic, and I am pleased to state that both Committees agree exactly in their reports. The following is a statement of the proceedings of this Office. Receipts and disbursements from the first of its operations up to the first of August, 1836. Dr. to cash received of the Commissioners at New Orleans in 2 receipts $7000 each .. ... . .. $14,000.00
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