Excerpt from A Treatise on Military Finance: Containing the Pay of the Forces on the British and Irish Establishment; With the Allowances in Camp, Garrison and Quarters, &C This work was first published in 1782, and several additions were made to it, in consequence of the pay-office act passed in 1783, and the new militia act in 1786. But since the 1st of January 1788, very considerable alterations having been made in the pay and allowances of the army, a new edition was rendered absolutely necessary. As the editor has procured every information from the different offices, he flatters himself, that the present edition (which is almost an entire new work) will be found still more useful to agents, pay-masters, and army officers of every rank, than those which preceded it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.