Chest, MILITARY, is a technical name for the money and negotiable securities carried with an army, and intended to defray the current expenses. In the British army it is in the charge of officers of the Army Pay Department.—CHEST AT CHATHAM was the name of a fund for maimed and superannuated seamen, administered at Chatham from 1590 till 1803, and subsequently at Greenwich, till superseded by the regular naval pension system.
Chest, MILITARY
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 167
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