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The present quartermaster has not made returns ; but as it is well known that he has not been supplied with money, whatever exertions have been made or supplies furnished in that department must have been on credit. It is to be presumed that the debts by him contracted up to 1st Jan. 1781, amount in specie to	Dollars	500,000
The commissary of purchases has made returns of debts due in his department amounting to	11,3888,903
To this is to be added what yet remains of the old currency unredeemed, suppose	160,000,000
To which maybe added for navy debts, &c., for debts due in the departments of the board, of the commissary general of military stores and the clothier general, estimated at	10,702,377
Total in continental at 75
for 1	230,000,000 is 3,066,66623
To which added the new money issued in lieu of the old which is called in and destroyed	2,000,000
Total debts in specie	24,057,15723

 

Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress (Boston, 1821), I 189-194.