Certification of payment; Richard Harrison, Esquire, for retaining fee costs and counsel fees upon the cause of Houdin and Van Ingen, and for obtaining Habeas Corpus at Albany for Indian confined for murder
Document 1800Certification of payment; $170 to Richard Harrison, Esquire, for retaining fee costs and counsel fees upon the cause of Houdin and Van Ingen, and for obtaining Habeas Corpus at Albany for an Indian confined for murder.
100%
⇣No human transcription currently available for this document.
This transcription was generated by machine using Anthropic's Claude Code (a mix of sonnet and opus models). It may contain errors or inaccuracies. Please verify against the document image. Learn more about our generative AI methodology.
[209]
Accountant's Office
May 31 1800
I Certify that there is due to Samuel
Hodgdon Superintendent of Military Stores John Harris Store
Keeper & the Clerks employed in their offices the Sum of Fifty
Dollars being the balance of their Salary up to the 31 March
1800 — W.S.
Dol 50.
To the Secy of War
June 3d 1800.
I Certify that there is due to James Anderson
the Sum of nine hundred sixty nine Dollars & [undecipherable] being the
amount of his account for engraving twenty eight Folio Plates
descriptive of a new System of Artillery, for copper [undecipherable]
& polishing plates for ditto, done under the direction of [undecipherable]
Williams by order of the late Secretary of War, and admitted
in conformity with the opinion of the Honble Brigr [undecipherable]
now performing the duties of Secy of War — W.S.
Dol 969.15
The Secy of War
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $170 to Richard Harrison, Esquire, for retaining fee costs and counsel fees upon the cause of Houdin and Van Ingen, and for obtaining Habeas Corpus at Albany for an Indian confined for murder.
Date
05/30/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800053021052
Page start
209
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Simmons
Richard Harrison
Houdin
Van Ingen
Indian
accountant
Secretary of War
attorney
Notable locations
Albany
New York
Accountant's Office
Notable items
cause
pay
habeas corpus
Indian confined for murder
costs
retaining fee
counsel fee

