Paymasters in the army were among the best suckers we ever had, and I fear we never shall have such fat plucking again.
His duty to his paymastersand his duty to his country were one.
Until the period of his commission, or of the war or campaign for which he had engaged was ended, his loyalty to his paymasters was as ungrudging as it was unassailable.
For him the growing dissensions amongst his paymasters were nothing, except in so far as they found them too absorbing to make time to send him money and supplies.
His paymasters had ordered him to coerce those on whom all his hopes depended, and he was going to obey.
It is complained that the receivers keep the money as long as they can, and that the paymasters postpone payment as long as possible.
The paymastersand the receivers are the greatest nuisance in the state.
On the 24th of February the paymasters arrived, and the troops received four months' pay, their last payment in the field; but none knew it then, nor had the least idea of the war ending so soon.
The paymasters arriving, the troops were paid in full and the sutlers patronized largely.
The paymasters were present, paying the guards, and the various detachments.
But only the greatest and completest old fool that ever held a commission from a brave prince and one of the few good paymasters in Europe.
Paymasters & Deputy Paymasters are to make weekly Returns to Congress of the State of the Military Chests under their Direction.
It was impossible for paymasters to carry funds without a strong escort of cavalry.
Blake sought the roughest duty--that of escorting inspectors, staff officers or paymasters on their wearisome trips through the wilderness--and no one denied him.
The plenitude of the consular power was further restricted in so far as the administration of the military chest was committed to two paymasters (-quaestores-) chosen by the community, who were nominated for the first time in 307.
The nomination as well of the two new paymasters for war as of the two administering the city-chest now passed over to the community; the consul retained merely the conduct of the election instead of the election itself.
The Quæstors were the paymastersof the state; and as the Censors had to fill up vacancies in the Senate from those who had held the office of Quæstor, the Plebeians thus became eligible for the Senate.
Failure to produce the desired result induced Rasputin and his paymasters in Berlin to adopt yet another method of forcing Russia into a separate peace.
The money was yet in its original shape, as issued to thesepaymasters from the Treasury Department.
The following is quoted from an interrupted Confederate letter, in speaking of Mosby: "He is well off for Greenbacks since he captured those paymasters on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad line.
The paymasters of our army, and the pursers of our navy, may, under like pretences, apply to their own use moneys appropriated to set in motion the public force, and in time of war leave the country without defence.
Of these latter was the assumption of the liability of the United States to become paymasters themselves in cases where failing, by war or negotiation, to obtain redress they make a treaty settlement, surrendering or abandoning claims.
Twice, that I remember, small trains were sent from Corpus Christi, with cavalry escorts, to San Antonio and Austin, with paymasters and funds to pay off small detachments of troops stationed at those places.
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