[D. To W^m Barnwell] War Department 22 Dec^t 1800 Sir Your letter announcing your intention to resign the appointment of additional Surgeons Mate in the service of the United States on the 31^st instant is received and your resignation accepted I am Sir Y^r [Major Constant Freeman] [" 36.] War Department 24^th December 1800 Sir I have received your favor of the 8^th instant & shall direct the Agent of the Department in Georgia, on your representation, to replace the Boat lately belonging to Fort Green Your letter of the 12^th September relative to your Claim as a refugee from Canada under the Act of 7^th April 1798 was in the Office at the time of its destruction. you are at liberty to transmit a Copy of it On the application of Cap^t McCall I decided some short time since on your Claim to double Rations; it has been acceded to. I am Sir Y^r [Lieut Col. Second Tousard Inspector Artillery] [" 3x= / 8.] War Department 29^th Decem^t 1800 Sir M^r Brown has presented to me a Table of 75 pieces of Ordnance proved & receipted for by Captains Stoddart and Bannon of your Regiment, on the 10^th instant. I will thank you to inform me whether you directed those Gentlemen to prove the above mentioned [guns]. They were made under the contract with Mess^rs R & I Hopkins on Furnace Hope Company Account I am Sir &^c [Capt. Joseph Elliott] War Department 29^th Decem^t 1800 Sir Agreeably to the request contained in your Letter of the 16^th instant. The President is pleased to accept of the Resignation of your Command as Captain in the First Regiment of Artillerists & Engineers I am Sir &^c [Brig. Gen^t Wilkinson] [" 47. / 11.] War Department 29^th Decem^t 1800 Sir I have considered your Letter of the 25^th November — Lieutenant Rand may be permitted to resign if Colonel Hamtramck should not think the Offence so aggravated as to require punishment. you will be pleased to take order accordingly. I am Sir &^c [Lieu^t Colonel Hamtramck] [" 94] War Department 29^th December 1800 Sir In answer to your request for information relative to your Claim as a Refugee from Canada; I have to state to you that Congress has not yet acted upon the reports made by the Commissioners, but it is presumed that they will be taken up during the present Session. I am Sir Y^r [Cap^t Hugh Mc Call] [" 35. / 12.] War Department 31^st December 1800 Sir In my Letter to you directing the manner in which Captain Nicoll should present his claims for Surgical Services to the Garrisons of Fort S^t Tammany & Point Peter I mentioned that he should render it as a private Citizen. In the accounts presented enclosed in your letter of the 15^th inst^t Cap^t Nicoll charges the pay & forage of a regular Surgeon's Mate. On this it will be impossible for me to decide untill I am informed whether the number of men at those posts during the time Captain Nicoll officiated, was sufficient to justify the expense of the attendance of a regular Surgeons Mate: if you can procure authentic returns of the numbers as above mentioned, I will with those additional documents, take the subject into Consideration. I am Sir Y^c