"  Your  task,"  he  said  to  Washington, "  is  too  great,
to  be  Commander-in-chief  and  Quartermaster  at
the  same  time."  "  I  will  serve  a  year,"  he  said
to  the  committee,  "  unconnected  with  the  ac-
counts, without  any  additional  pay  to  that  I  have
as  major-general."  "  But  this  proposition  was  re-
jected as  inadmissible ;  and  on  the  25th  of  Febru-
ary, the  committee  Avrote  to  the  President  of  Con-
gress that  Greene  had  consented  to  serve.  They
communicated,  at  the  same  time,  a  new  plan  for
the  organization  of  the  department.  On  Monday,
March  2d,  Congress,  "  taking  into  consideration  the
arrangement  proposed  by  the  committee,  —

"  Resolved,  That  the  same  be  adopted  instead  of  that
agreed  to  on  the  5th  day  of  February,  and  that  there  be
one  quartermaster-general,  and  two  assistant  quartermas-
ters-general :

"  That  these  three  be  allowed,  for  their  trouble  and  ex-
pense, one  per  cent,  upon  the  moneys  issued  in  the  depart
ment,  to  be  divided  as  they  shall  agree,  and  including  an  ad-
dition to  the  pay  of  wagonmaster-general  and  his  deputy :

"  That  Major-general  Green  be  appointed  Quartermas-
ter-general :

"  That  John  Cox  and  Charles  Pettit,  Esq.  be  appointed
Assistant  Quartermasters-general :


'"8  1  LIFE   OF   NATHAN AEL    GREENE.  49

"  That  the  forage-masters,  wagon-masters,  and  other
officers  in  the  department,  be  in  the  appointment  of  the
quartermaster-general,  who  is  to  be  responsible  for  their
conduct :

"  Resolved,  That  Major-general  Green  retain  his  rank
of  major-general  in  the  army.
