"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 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. * * * * * NOTE--No. III. _See Page 179._ The year 1784 had nearly passed away before the determination of the British cabinet not to evacuate the western posts was known to the government of the United States. In the spring of that year, General Knox, who commanded the troops still retained in the service of the United States, was directed to "open a correspondence with the Commander-in-chief of his Britannic majesty's forces in Canada, in order to ascertain the precise time when each of the posts within the territories of the United States then occupied by the British troops should be delivered up." The measures produced by this resolution exhibit a curious specimen of the political opinions on the subject of federal powers, which then prevailed in congress.