Navy yard clerk Samuel Shore expresses dissatisfaction that Simmons suspended the amount charged to his account and Shore now is expecting to be fully paid for the months of November and December.
Posey informs Simmons that he has not yet received the $200 intended for the recruiting service but when he does receive the money, he will give the receipts as directed.
Pierce sends Howell a receipt for the $86,460 that was given to the paymaster. $50,000 was to pay the Kentucky volunteers and the remainder was for pay, subsistence, and forage for the troops of the US Legion.
From Governors Island New York, Captain Ledam sends to an unknown recipient his Muster Roll for December and requests a draft on Colonel Fish. Ledam will deliver his receipts when he visits Philadelphia in February to close out his accounts for 1794.
Unknown author from the War Department sends Appleton the $3000 commutation of Capt. John Sleuman for which receipts will be provided. Capt. Sleuman is now to be paid his pension.
Posey informs Barry that so far he has only received the Muster Roll for his detachment, but still needs information regarding how and when to pay his men as he has not yet received the payroll.
Lieutenant Posey informs Simmons that he has paid his men, except for three deserters and a sergeant assigned elsewhere, and has $31.62 remaining that will be disposed of as directed.
From West Point, Sprig is transmitting to Simmons his account for three months salary. The money can be sent through Mr. Fish of New York or by any other manner deemed appropriate.
From Baltimore, Lieutenant Jonathan Robeson of Corps of Artillerists and Engineers is transmitting his account against United States. Colonel Rochefontain, West Point, desired he enclose it.
Buchanan Smith is forwarding to Howell his enlistments and recruiting account. He would have transmitted it sooner but failed to enlist more men following their return from the western expedition as he had hoped to do.
Freeman informs Simmons of the state of Ensign McCall's account as well as that of Colonel Pope whose men will be paid as soon as Freeman can find time to see him. There is a question regarding whether the militia cavalry is allowed pay for more than one horse.
This letter documents that, by the authority of the Secretary of War, $1000 has been drawn for James Frazer for the pay of the Army through September 1797.
This is documentation that Lieutenant Charles Wright's expenses were $50.83 while waiting in Philadelphia for dispatches from the Secretary of War and $149.19 while carrying dispatches from the Secretary of War to Knox County, Tennessee.
Stevens is expressing to Simmons his concern regarding the fate of correspondence that included the pay of Capt. Kalteisen's troops for the months of November and December.
Steele informs Simmons that Christian Altebran (?) is an apprentice and under age and that is the reason he has not been included on the certificate and the recruiting account. Therefore, a request has been made to Major Freeman to deliver him up.
This is a voucher that is an enclosure to a letter regarding the time of service of a mason named Isadore Peltier in which it is stated that his time of service cannot be precisely determined because it is not known whether he worked on sundays.
Burbeck certifies that Isadore Peltier worked as a mason for the Quartermaster General from August 15, 1797 to September 2, 1798 at two dollars per day and is entitled to the authorized pay.
McHenry requests that Harris provide a purveyor forty knapsacks and forty cartouche boxes for the Navy Department. Also McHenry wants a return listing all the articles the purveyor has received so that he may either replace them or pay for them.
