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collected, stored and distributed them. In 1798, the Office of the
Purveyor of Public Supplies was transferred to the War Department. Provisions still fell under the Treasury Department. Both the War Secretary and the Secretary of the Navy would direct the Purveyor regarding purchase of military and naval supplies respectively. The audit of naval accounts was at the same time transferred from the Purveyor to the Accountant of the Navy, a civil official in the
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The procurement of all military supplies except military rations fell to the
Purveyor of Public Supplies who executed the orders of the Secretary of War and made contracts for clothing, shoes, camp utensils, military stores, equipage, medicines and hospital stores. From 1795 to 1801, the Purveyor was
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Treasury Department, and in 1795, two subordinate supply agencies were created; the Purveyor of Public Supplies in the Treasury and the Superintendent of Military Stores in the War Department. The former purchased military and naval supplies, while the former
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became a civil official without military rank, whose sole function was transportation. In 1792, Congress made the
Department of the Treasury in charge of acquisition of uniforms, military rations, weapons and ammunition. The War Department maintained its control over transportation of military
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Commissary General of Purchase in the War Department and the Secretary of the Navy respectively in 1812.
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and for disposing of the goods received from them. In 1801, these duties were taken over by the Acting
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Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States.
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Preliminary inventory of the records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Quartermaster Support of the Army. A History of the Corps 1775-1939.
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Schmitt, Frederick P. (1970). "The founding of the Supply Corps."
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The Logistics of the United States Army, 1812-1821.
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