February 12th
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“My observation on every employment in life is, that wherever, and whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.”
Artist: Charles Polk. National Portrait Gallery
To the Secretary of War*
Mount Vernon, 24 September 1792
I am in sentiment with you, that Sub-Legionary Paymasters, and sub-legionary Adjutants (the latter aided by the Sergeant Majors) are competent to their respective duties without Battalion officers of this description; at any rate I conceive that the experiment ought to be made with the latter in the 1st inste.
My observation on every employment in life is, that wherever, and whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein; besides, as you have very properly observed, the danger of money is encreased in proportion to the number of hands into which it is committed.
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