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128 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
Couper, in which we arrived here yesterday. Mr.
Barclay has transmitted, or will soon transmit, to
Mr. Morris a state of the above-mentioned accounts ; and as it will thence appear that some of
the bills drawn upon me have been twice paid,
it becomes necessary for me to inform your Excellency of the particular and cautious manner in which
that business was transacted on my part. Soon after
the arrival of the first bills, I directed Mr. Carmichael
to prepare and keep a book, with the pages divided
into a number of columns, and to enter therein the
dates, numbers, and other descriptive particulars of
every bill that might be presented to me for acceptance, and to which on examination he should find no
objection. I made it an invariable rule to send every
bill to him to be examined and entered previous to
accepting it ; and from that time to the day I left
Spain, I never accepted a single bill until after it had
been inspected and sent to me by him to be accepted.
Further, to avoid mistakes and frauds, I also made it
a constant rule that every bill presented for payment
should undergo a second examination by Mr. Carmichael, that if he found it right he should sign his
name to it, and that the bankers should not pay any
bill unless so signed.
The bills twice paid, or rather the different numbers
of the same set, stand entered in different places in
the book above mentioned ; and I can only regret
that the entries of the numbers first presented and
accepted were not observed by him, either at the
time when the subsequent ones were offered for ac-
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 3 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000163 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 128 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. Couper, in which we arrived here yesterday. Mr. Barclay has transmitted, or will soon transmit, to Mr. Morris a state of the above-mentioned accounts ; and as it will thence appear that some of the bills drawn upon me have been twice paid, it becomes necessary for me to inform your Excellency of the particular and cautious manner in which that business was transacted on my part. Soon after the arrival of the first bills, I directed Mr. Carmichael to prepare and keep a book, with the pages divided into a number of columns, and to enter therein the dates, numbers, and other descriptive particulars of every bill that might be presented to me for acceptance, and to which on examination he should find no objection. I made it an invariable rule to send every bill to him to be examined and entered previous to accepting it ; and from that time to the day I left Spain, I never accepted a single bill until after it had been inspected and sent to me by him to be accepted. Further, to avoid mistakes and frauds, I also made it a constant rule that every bill presented for payment should undergo a second examination by Mr. Carmichael, that if he found it right he should sign his name to it, and that the bankers should not pay any bill unless so signed. The bills twice paid, or rather the different numbers of the same set, stand entered in different places in the book above mentioned ; and I can only regret that the entries of the numbers first presented and accepted were not observed by him, either at the time when the subsequent ones were offered for ac- |
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