Asks the Secretary of State to prepare appropriate letters to the King of Prussia recalling John Quincy Adams as minister to that country and thank him for the kind treatment the younger Adams has received. Asks that several copies be sent through different nations; notes that he would prefer J.Q. Adams to continue as a European minister, but the only acceptable posts (as minister to France or England) are either unsuited to him or unavailable, hence the decision to bring him home.
Certification of payment; $62.50 Alexander Gibson for hire of a horse, while on way from Staunton, Virginia, to Tennessee by order of the committee appointed by congress examining the affair of William Blount, and for keeping a public horse left by Captain Thomas Lewis in the care of Captain Gibson for 50 days.
Certification of payment; $48 to Doctor Gillaspy and Doctor Strong for reporting and examining accounts of physicians who were employed in the service of the United States
Certification of payment; $40 to Doctor Joseph Strong, for medicines furnished and attendance on recruits under Major Thomas Cushing, seven miles from Philadelphia, in the yellow fever of 1798, and for expenses while detained by summons by Judge Advocate as witness in Court Martial.
Noted mistake of receiving too many of one type of cannon as "extraordinary indeed." Carriages for guns being constructed by workmen. Craig reported that he has repacked and assembled a years worth of clothing for regiments stationed at several posts by appropriating clothing intended for the North Western posts.
Certification of payment; $138.03 to Reuben Everett, for pay, forage, and as temporary surgeons mate at Fort Johnston North Carolina, to be transmitted to Griffith McRee, collector Wilmington North Carolina.
