Tre orier

de la prévôté de l’Hotel, Fr. Treasurers or paymasters of the provost-marshal’s department at the hotel or town hall in Paris. Le TRESORIER général de l’artillerie , Fr. The treasurer or paymaster-general of the artillery. Le TRESORIER général des fortifications , Fr. The treasurer or paymaster-general of fortifications. All these treasurers or paymasters were subject to their several comptrollers of accounts, and their i ues, . were audited accordingly. There were likewise provincial or subordinate paymasters of the extraordinaries of the army. They were appointed by the treasurers or paymasters-general, and resided in the different departments and general districts of the kingdom. These appointments fell, of course, at the revolution, and they have since been replaced by a more simple and economical consolidation. The artillery has still its separate treasurer or paymaster. The district paymasters, which have been established in Great Britain, . during the present war, seem manifestly to have taken their origin from the old French arrangement.