ARMY AGENT,

ARMY AGENT, a person appointed by government to receive the pay of officers quarterly in advance and act as their banker. The officers draw their pay monthly in arrears from the agent, whose remuneration consists only in the use of the large sums thus always in his hands, and any private banking business that officers may give him. Every regiment has an agent, whose name appears in the Army List. Messrs Cox & Co., Craig's Court, London, are agents for nearly all the regiments of the British army. The payment of the soldiers is quite distinct from that of the officers, and is now no part of the agent's duties (see ARMY PAY DEPARTMENT).