From John Nicholson (unpublished)
Comptroller Generals Office 17 October 1785
Sir

Agreeable to the directions of the Honble the Council I do my self the Honor to inclose the general Heads of the charges which this State hath against the United States. There are a vast many other particular charges which will not be comprized under any of these Heads. Yet so far as I have been able to attend to the subject since I received the order of your Honble Board I apprehand the existing Resolutions of Congress will cover and support them. I am &c &c

His Excellency Benjamin Franklin Esqr. President in Council
1. The building, arming, manning and equipping the Vessels fitted out for the common deffence by this state during the late war including the five Rafts. 2. The pay of the Officers non Commissioned Officers and Privates thereof together with their provisions 3. The Charges of building and sinking the Chevaux de Foriz in the River Delaware, and all other expences relating thereunto, together with such other obstructions as were therein made against the Common Enemy. 4. Raising, paying, cloathing, arming and victualling the Pennsylvania Battalions of Infantry and Artillery Commanded by Colonels Miles, Attlee and Proctor. 5. Ditto of sundry Independent Companies afterwards annexed to the Pennsylvania Line. 6. Sundry Expences removing and transporting the 8th. Regiment when they were ordered to leave the western Frontiers and march to Camp 7. Paying victualling and subsisting the Militia, when in actual service during the late ware, called out against the Common Enemy. 8. Transportation of their Baggage, and charges for Baggage waggons taken by the Enemy, or horses taken or killed when thus employed, Also for the Horses of Militia Light Draggons taken or killed when in actual service. 9. The expence of warning out the Militia when ordered into service for the common defence. 10. The expences of the Barrack Masters Department for the Militia, Pennsylvania Battalions, and naval armament. 11. The raising, paying, cloathing, arming and equipping the several Companies of Rangers raised in the course of the war and stationed for the deffence of the Frontiers. 12. Apprehending deserters from the Continental Army. 13. The bounty of £3 each to the Flying Camp in 1776. 14. The bounty voted by the Assembly Decem. 1776 to those Militia and Associators who should turn out and rendezvous by a certain day 15. The expences of fixing Ammunition for the Army, Militia or Navy and transportation thereof. 16. The repairing of Arms and Accoutrements impaired in the service 17. The Arms, Accutrements and Blankets, taken by the Enemy, lost or worn out in the service, or delivered into Continental stores. 18. Military Stores    ditto   do 19. Intrinsairy Tools. 20. The Rent of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Barracks occupied by the Troops in the service of the United States, and expences of repairing them from time to time. 21. Powderworks carried on for Congress 22. Recruiting the Pennsylvania Line after January 1781. 23. Cloathing furnished to the Continental Troops, and the expence and pay of such Clothiers. 24. The Pay and Expences of the Waggon Master General and County Waggon Masterr. 25. The Accounts of the Commissioners in the Counties for purchasing horses for the Army in 1778 and 1780. 26. The Accounts of the Commissioners in the several Counties appointed by Act of 1 June 1780 to procure provisions for the Federal Army independent of the specific supplies. 27. The Certificates of Quarter Masters, Commissaries and others for debts of the United States received in taxes. 28. The Depreciation of the Pay of the Army, Viz. The Quota of Pennsylvania in the Line of the Army discharged after the 10th. April 1780, The Officers of the Hospital and Medical department discharged as aforesaid, The Officers deranged in 1778, The Officers and privates who were taken prisoners; during their Captivity, The Officers and privates of the State Navy discharged after the 18 decem 1780, The Officers of the Navy of Pennsylvania deranged in 1778. 29. The expence of removing the state prisoners to Virginia and bringing them back in 1777 and 1778. 30. The Advances to Officers for recruiting the Pennsylvania Regiments in 1776 and 1777. 31. The Advances to the Commissioners appointed to purchase provisions and forage for the Army in 1778. 32. Fortifying Mud Island, Red Bank and Billingsport. 33. Pay for servants inlisted into the Army in 1777. 34. Pay of Town Majors at sundry Posts, and keepers of Magazines during the war 35. The Pay of 7 Months Men and 18 Months men raised in 1780 and the Expence of subsisting them from the time of their inlistment till they Arrived at Camp. 36. The Bounty of the said 7 Months men and 18 Months men, and also the Men raised by the first Class tax Inlisted for and during the war 37. Advance for the support of American prisoners in New York in the late war 38. The gratuity of £9 voted in the spring 1781 to each non Commissioned Officer and soldier in service, in the Pennsylvania Line, who should inlist to serve during the war, or had been before inlisted for that term 39. In the year 1778 the state granted a bounty of 100 dollars to every recruit inlisted for the Penna. Line in addition to the Continental Bounty, and 16 dollars for inlisting each recruit in addition to the allowance by Congress. 40. The Militia were allowed a Bounty of one shilling per day per Man from 1777 till March 1780 in addition to their Continental pay. And in April 1779 the sum of £10 per Month per man was allowed in addition thereunto till March 1780. From March 1780 untill 22d Septem. 1780 the several Counties were to fix the Rate of days labor and pay the militia agreeable thereunto. The same to include Continental pay. This in the Counties west of the Susquehanah was generally allowed at 20 dollars per day. In this City at 40 doll per day. From Suptem. 1780, till the 11 June 1781 their pay was fixed at 30 dollars Continental Money per day. From the time last mentioned untill the end of the war the pay of the Militia man was 3/6 per day Specie. 41. In the year 1777 substitutes were hired by the state to serve two months at a time in the Militia, and from £50 to 70 Bounty to each hath been given. 42. Quere, what is to be the rule by which the several Commissioners in the respective states are to be governed in bringing Continental Money advanced or expended by any particular State to the use of the United States to specie value after the 18 March 1780 at which time the Continental scale, of June 1780 end, See act of Congress of 20 Feby. 1782
J N Comptroller Genl. Office
17th. Oct. 1785
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