Officers, and others who have the Custody of Arms Camp Equipage or Military Stores to Observe the direction of the Superintendent of Military Stores with Respect to Their Transportation and deposit — Gen^l Hamilton will give the Paymaster Gen^l orders relative to the pay of the Officers, and men to be discharged — I am &c &c (Signed) James McHenry He also announces the Gen^l Orders of Major Gen^l Hamilton of the 18^th Instant on the same Subject, as the Following visu — Gen^ls orders May 18^th 1800 It is the duty of Major Gen^l E Hamilton to announce [undecipherable] of the 18^th Instant — on the [undecipherable] the 18^th Instant — [undecipherable] that an act of Congress passed the 14^th Instant, which authorizes the President of the United States to discharge On or Before the 15^th Day of June next, all Such Officers, Non Commissioned Officers, and Privates as had been appointed Commissioned or raised [undecipherable] and by virtue of the act to Augment the Army of the United States except the Engineers, Inspectors of Artillery, and Inspectors of Fortifications — Containing a provision that the Power hereby given Shall not be — to authorize any Retention of the first [four?] Regiments of Infantry, the two Reg[i]t of Artillery & Engineers in two Corps of Eight [Companies?] of or of the Gen[t]s and other Staff authorized by the several Laws for the Establishing and Organizing of the aforesaid Corps, and granting to each Officer Non Commissioned [undecipherable] to be Discharg[e]d [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] and Emoluments to which the[y] are entitled entitled by laws the [full?] Allowance of Three Months Pay — and that in consequence of the said act it has Pleased the President to give orders for Reducing the 12 Augmented Additional Reg[t]s on the 14^th Day of June Next. Whose Reg[t]s will accordingly be prepared for Their Reduction on that Day in order there to, Muster and Pay Rolls are to be made up to that Day in during [?] Paymasters [undecipherable]. It is [undecipherable] that no avoidable delay Shall [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] funds have been called for to Fulfill the intent of the Law — All Officers who have the Custody of Arms, Camp Equipages or Military Stores, are to observe the direction of Sam[ue]l Hodgson Esq. with respect to there Transportation and deposit — The requisitions of the said Letter and order are to be punctually Obeyed — The ninth Regt, is to be Mustered in [the?] [undecipherable] of the Evening [undecipherable] the Tenth Regt in the Beginning of the [undecipherable] afterwards, and Muster and Pay Rolls, due to be made out, as the 14^th of June inclusively — A return is to be made of the number of men who are enlisted for five Years, those are not to be discharged but are to remain here till further Orders — Lieut John Williams of the Eig[h]th Lieut John B Bay[?]s of the Ninth Lieut Thomas [Key?] of the Tenth will [undecipherable] the Charges of them till the President Pleasure is Known — The Canal Fatigue, and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the ensuing [undecipherable] to be Augmented to [undecipherable] men — Capt Henry of the Eighth will draw Rations for them and no rations of any kind are to be [Canav?] for them in their respective Companies — New York May 9^th 1800 Inclusive are Copys of a Letter, To Cap^t Williamson the Deputy paymaster Gen^l and [his?] instructions Relative to Certain objects of inessential expenditures. I send them to you that you may inform, which may inform whither the [undecipherable] in side which the [undecipherable] plan of your instructions [grant?] Consideration I am Sir your ob^t Servant (Signed) A Hamilton paymaster Gen^l The following objects of inessential expenditures Occur — 1^st For Travelling expenses pursuant to the regulations of Department of war, of the 19^th Sep^t 1798 as the servants, attend only to Field Officers, and to the [undecipherable] Regimental Staff in Computing the Days Journey, the following example to Govern Supposing the whole distance to Eight Hundred miles Distance: — Rates — Days 200 — 40 — 5 150 — 30 — 5 250 — 25 — 10 200 — 20 — 10 30 Making the Whole Time for which Compensation is to [undecipherable] Thirty Days, on this point some