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From the official report of General Gaines
subsistence Department
This is the most perfect in its organization and in all
its details, and fulfild more completely the objects of its creation
than any other department Known to me, or ever Known in
any branch of the public service, excepting that of the paymaster
General which is equally perfect,) and this is the more umarkable
when it is recollected that there is me one supply to an army
wherein defects or dificuncies are so certain to be dilicue and
exposed, as the supplies of this department; every officer and
way enlisua man, who cals his nation, constitutes a part
of a board of Inspection or of a jury, whose verdict will never
fail to be promptly and understandingly undered: for ifa
man is a juage of any thing he is surely a very competent
juage of his daily bread" ana if u is not good, he will not
fail to complain, especially when he knows he is intitica to
that which is good.
After the most careful inspications for ught years
past, I have the satisfaction to uport that I have never
heard a complaint or found a ration of damaged provisions,
except in we or three cases where the damage had occurred
by casualties in transportation: and that with exceptions
of this kind, I have found the subsistence of the best quality,
amply supplied and ugularly issued: without any case of
actaleation on the part of any officer to my Knowledge who
lived to attend to the setilement of his own accounts.
(over
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