Procedures for Requisitioning Articles
Document 1799McHenry reviews the procedures for requisiitioning articles such as boats and gun carriages and for the erection of barracks and other buildings. These procedures are to be followed unless it is the opinion of the Commanding General that the time required to adhere to them would materially damage the service.
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Letter Signed
Description
McHenry reviews the procedures for requisiitioning articles such as boats and gun carriages and for the erection of barracks and other buildings. These procedures are to be followed unless it is the opinion of the Commanding General that the time required to adhere to them would materially damage the service.
Date
09/07/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Trenton, War Department
Collection
Document number
1799090700000
Notable persons
Alexander Hamilton
James McHenry
Major Daniel Jackson
Colonel Ebenezer Stevens
inferior officers
Secretary of War [McHenry]
Commanding General [Washington]
accountant of the War Department [Simmons]
Inspector of Fortifications
Commandant of the garrison
artillery officer who commands over the District
agent of the Department of War in the vicinity of the garrison
Notable locations
Trenton, War Department
Fort Independence
southern quarter of the Union
Notable items
authority to procure a boat for the use of the garrison on Castle Island
make carriages for cannon
erection of barracks or other buildings at Fort Independence
acquiescence of agents
expenditures incurred
18th Section of the "Act for the better organizing of the Troops of the United States and for other purposes": boat or seine is wanted for the
propriety of the requisition
ascertaining the expense and necessity for gun carriages, additional barracks, or other buildings appertaining to the fortifications
cases when, in the opinion of the Commanding General, the service would materially suffer
orders to execute the requisition
estimates ought to be formed with care and the approvals unequivical
quantity of suitable timber to be procured and stores at Fort Mifflin
gun carriages from approved models