ABSTRACT
On Tuesday the 4th instant, six soldiers’ wives applied to the Kirk Treasurer of Lesmahagow for travelling expences, and presented their passes in order that the necessary receipts might be taken, and the money to be paid marked on the passes. The Treasurer, in the mean time, paid them one shilling each, to procure their lodging for the night, and desired them to call in the evening, when they would be paid the sum due to each, and their passes returned to them, having the sum marked thereon. Upon inspecting the passes, it was found that they were complete forgeries; the sums marked as paid at the several stages were all in the same handwriting, and no such officers as certified them could be found in the army list. The women having applied in the evening for the money and passes, were refused both, and thought fit to decamp next morning. The passes have been transmitted to the Right Honourable the Secretary at War, in order to discover by what means the printed forms had been procured, and by whom they had been filled up.
