[NOTE]—No. II. See [Page 106].
On his way, he stopped a few days at Philadelphia, for the purpose of settling his accounts with the comptroller. The following account of this part of his duty is extracted from Mr. Gordon; "while in the city he delivered in his accounts to the comptroller, down to December the 13th, all in his own hand writing, and every entry made in the most particular manner, stating the occasion of each charge, so as to give the least trouble in examining and comparing them with the vouchers with which they were attended.
"The heads as follows, copied from the folio manuscript paper book in the file of the treasury office, number 3700, being a black box of tin containing, under lock and key, both that and the vouchers."
| Total of expenditures from 1775 to 1783, exclusive of provisions from commissaries and contractors, and of liquors, &c. from them and others, | 3,387 | 14 | 4 | |
| Secret intelligence and service, | 1,982 | 10 | 0 | |
| Spent in reconnoitring and travelling, | 1,874 | 8 | 0 | |
| Miscellaneous charges, | 2,952 | 10 | 1 | |
| Expended besides, dollars according to the scale of depreciation, | 6,114 | 14 | 0 | |
| l. | ——— 16,311 | — 17 | — 1 |
"Two hundred guineas advanced to General M'Dougal are not included in the l. 1982 10 0 not being yet settled, but included in some of the other charges, and so reckoned in the general sum.
"Note; 104,364, of the dollars were received after March, 1780, and although credited at forty for one, many did not fetch at the rate of a hundred for one; while 27,775 of them are returned without deducting any thing from the above account (and, therefore, actually made a present of to the public)."
| General Washington's account from June, 1778 to the end of June, 1783, | 16,311 | 17 | 1 |
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| Expenditure from July 1, 1783, to December 13, | 1,717 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Added afterward from thence to December 28, | 213 | 8 | 4 | ||
| Mrs. Washington's travelling expenses in coming to the general and returning, | 1,064 | 1 | 0 | ||
| l. | ——— 19,306 | — 11 | — 9 | ||
| Lawful money of Virginia, the same as Massachusetts, or sterling, | l. | 14,479 | 18 | 9 | 3-4 |
The general entered in his book—"I find upon the final adjustment of these accounts, that I am a considerable loser, my disbursements falling a good deal short of my receipts, and the money I had upon hand of my own: for besides the sums I carried with me to Cambridge in 1775, I received monies afterwards on private account in 1777, and since, which (except small sums, that I had occasion now and then to apply to private uses) were all expended in the public service: through hurry, I suppose, and the perplexity of business, (for I know not how else to account for the deficiency) I have omitted to charge the same, whilst every debit against me is here credited."
July 1st, 1783.