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flee early in March, lS57-which is q!
early period as accounts Of that magni
tudc have ever been furnished after the
service performed At that time the Com
misSioners met at Olympia, and requested
+ complete copy Of them 10 be forwarded
to Vancouver, which occupied aLont I
weeks longer time in making olt the copies
Of my own and the other Quar;ermasters
accounts they were then forwarded ic
! Vancouver and found correct, and Geknoi0t
cdgM 10 be eQn yicie as will be seen by The
annexed notes
OFFICE or THE COMMISSION oS
lSDIAN WAR CLAIMS,
Vancouver, W. T., July ., ls57.)
GENEEAL:--
Your letter Of the 2Gth instant with It's enclosures
ha, been received.
The receipts of Gov Isaac J. Stevcis for 1851 81
will be Kept and hlcd with your account current
which takes it up Captain Robe account charsc'
you with the amount which will make II Necessary ul
you 10 receipt to him, which receipt m,t he on iilC
with his account, ana you having Governor Steven,
receipt the amount will thus Lc carried to tie Indian
/ Department-d"d 5oW poppa conE'eied.
Very respectfully,
Your Obt. Scrvt,
By order, j. Il. DANIELS,
Scc. II Commission
Gen. W. W. MILLER, Q. " & Com. Gac'al
| Flash. Territory olmiiecrs, Olympia, ", T.
OFFICE OF TUE CONFUSION on
INDIAN WAR CLAUS,
Vancouver, W. T., August |, lsj7l
have the honor to acknowledge the receipt Of yor
official receipt to A. II. Robe, Cuiiermasier, W. 7
w. for the of 1854 &c, and to state that il is on
tie in its proper place.
Very respectfully.
Your obt stryt,
j.. DANIELS,
Cen. W. W. MILLER. Q. II General, ". I. J..
OiymVid ". T.
Ny accounts having thus been shown to
be complete, the reader nny ask why il
was / remained in office. This is very
easily explained. 1t was asccrtaincd by
the Commissioners that the company and
field officers, with the exception Of Capt.
WIN. Kelly, had failed to furnish any prop
er account of the public property received
| by them, and the Commissioners addressed
most urgent letter to ~rhe authorities Of
this territory upon the subject of the dclin
qucncy This communication was tnrncd
over to me by the Governor, with the re-
quest that | would cause 10 be placed i'll
proper shape the property accounts Of the
company officers, they not being acquaint'
cd sufficiently with army regulations tC
make them out in proper form themselves,
with the exception above named. A cir
cular had already been addressed to thu
different commanders of the companies and
field officers generally, a copy of which
hereto annex:
OFFICE QUARTERMAsTER GENERAL. I
Olympia, February 2, 1857.
SIR:-Yon will transmit by mail or otherwise, "a
this Office an account OF all public property Of every
kind received and Issued by you on account Of Com
pany lst. and End Regiments, Washington Terri
Respectfully
W. W. MILLER,
@. H. g. Com. General.
A copy Of the foregoing was forwarded
to Captains Wallace, Hays, Yantis, Hew-
lit, aud all the other captains of compa-
nies composing the lst and ID Regiments.
In answer to which, most Of the officers
promptly responded and the force of my
Office were busily engaged for several
months in bringing mp this work which
ought to have been done by the company
officers themselves. Several of the compa-
ny officers took such imperfect vouchers
that nothing could be made Of their ac-
counts, and it was this failure which caused
the Commissioners to insert in their report,
that "the accounting of the company OH
GERS of Washington Territory was not as
complete as those of Oregon" One OF
two company officers entirely failed to ren.
der any account whatever Of the property
received by them, to this Office, as the army
regulations requre-and it is somewhat
remarkable that one of these gentlemen
who held positions in both the lst aud 2nd
Regiments, and failed to make any return
whatever 10 this Office, is now the ally oI
the Auditor, and talks loud and looks wise
about the bad manner in which the buSi
ness Of this Territory has been conducted
Doubtless, this far seeing and knowing gen
tleman thought that the few remarks made
on his muster roll, were complete. rend
ton Of his company accounts; doubt
very much, if he knows what property
account" consists Of.
Having disposed Of the company ac
counts, it was ascertained that there were
numerous demands, both in Oregon and
Washington Territories, still unsettled, and
as these accounts were being presented
daily, to the authorities OF this Territory
| was ogain requested to undertake the
auditing of them, as will be seen from the
: annexed letter, aud thus was busily en-
gagged until the S0th Of September, 1857
, when resigned my commission as Quar-
termaster General of the volunteer forces
Gov. McMullin having arrived in the Ter
ritory, the business then came under hi
charge.
i EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
TEKuroRY OF WASHINGTON,
Olympia, August 10, ls57.)
10 Or W. s Com. dend .. MILLER,
Olympia, ~. T,
SIR:-lt is obvious from the frequent calls made up
on YOU in the settlement OF the volunteer business
the Territory, that your services will to constantly &c
qured lor some time 10 come; | shall accordingly
recommend to the Commission an extension Of you