Note 357 — 1839.

The above detail does not exhibit a true exposition of the acquirements and usefulness of the survey companies, as many of those not advanced to the classes, had been reduced from the higher to the lower rates for irregularity; and others, on the higher rates, were not advanced as soon as their qualifications merited, it being a principle with the Colonel, not to exhaust the limited power he possessed of awarding working pay, because he wisely considered nothing was more discouraging to human exertions than the knowledge, that those whose duty it was to reward, had no further power to grant them encouragement.