Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1884 — Pay During The Revolution. [ARTICLE]

Pay During The Revolution.

The scale of compensation was at the extreme of moderation. In no degree, however, in the absence of value to the currency in which it was rated, could pay have been invested with the attraction of reward. Yet it is submitted as not devoid of interest To the office of dire tor of the military hospitals was attached the pay of $l5O per month, two ration®, one for servant and two of so age; to that of the chief physician and surgeon of the army, sllO per month, two horses and wagon, and two rations of forage; to each of the three chief physicians anfj surgeons of the hospitals, $l4O per month and two rations; to the purveyor, $l3O, and his assistant $75 per month; to the apothecary, $l3O per month, and his two assistants, SSO per month each; to the fifteen hospital physicians and surgeons $l2O per

month each, and and to each of the twenty-six mates SSO per month. The stewards received eaoh $35 per month; the clerks and storekeepers $2 per day; the seven matrons 50 cents each, and a ration per day; the thirty nurses each 2 shilling and a ration per dav, and the orderlies, if soldiers, 1 shilling and a ration, and if citizens, 2 shillings and a ration a dij.—Magazine of American History.