Simmons received William Irvine's letters of December 22nd and January 20th regarding a letter of Captain Irvine's. Simmons is writing to inform William Irvine that no further action needs to be taken on behalf of Captain Irvine.
Certification of payment; $3326.40 to detachment of militia under Major Thomas Johnson, against the Indians on the frontier of the Southwestern Territory 1794, in conformity with Act of Congress 13 May 1800.
Certification of payment; $78.58 to Captain Alexander Gibson, 4th Regiment of Infantry, for recruiting and contingent expenses and payments made to Doctor George G. McIntosh, for medicine and attendance on sick soldiers at Staunton Virginia.
Certification of payment; $93 to Captain Theodore Sedgwick, 2d Regiment of Infantry for superintending the delivering of annuities to certain nations of Indians.
Certification of payment; $1102.25 to Elias B. Dayton, Elizabeth Town, for rations, quartermaster, hospital stores, lumber, transportation, carpenter, and mason work for United States troops marching through New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Certification of payment; $570.63 to Edward Carrington, Supervisor at Richmond Virginia for commissions making contracts and balance of advances made to contractors for supplying rations to troops.
Certification of payment; $95.94 to James Byers, Contractor, for rations supplied Joseph Williams, John Bryant, and armorers at Springfield, Massachusetts.
Certification of payment; $108.50 to Yundt and Brown, printers at Baltimore, for printing proposals for supply of rations, and notifications for officers to report to General Hamilton.
Since the plate and copies were all lost in the fire that destroyed the War Office, Newman requests a copy of one of the commissons issued by the President to officers of the Volunteer Corps.
Simmons received Miller's letter of January 17th with the accounts of Colonel Ogden and of Miller's expenditures, which will be entered with those already forwarded to be examined.
Simmons writes Congressman Nicholas about the claim of Benjamin Hendrick for a pension. Simmons feels that this subject is a matter for the Secretary of War, but notes that he does not deem himself knowledgeable enough to determine whether the Secretary of War will place Hendrick on the pension list under the circumstances explained to Simmons by Nicholas. Simmons suggests that a special provision by Congress would allow for Mr. Hendrick to receive his pension and guard against any disappointments.
List of invalid pensioners belonging to the state of Virginia, with the monthly allowances to each for the period from September 5, 1800 to March 4, 1801.
Simmons informs Byers that upon examination of his accounts for the armorers at Springfield during October, November, and December 1800, Byers is owed $95.94 by the United States. Byers apparently took issue with Mr. Ames regarding fuel for the armorers at Springfield, and noted this to Simmons. Simmons replies in this letter than any fact which may incriminate Ames should have been forwarded to the Secretary of War, as the power for investigating these grievances lies with him. Simmons requests that Byers remind Ames that if the armorers neglect to draw their fuel as it becomes due, they are from that point on prohibited from filing any legal claim regarding regulations of the War Department, which says that no compensation of any kind may be made for arrears of fuel.
Certification of payment; $8.70 for retained rations to Captain John H. Bayard, Colonel Bensons Maryland Militia, ordered into service to suppress an insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania 1794.
Certification of payment; $27.50 balance of retained rations to officers in Colonel William McFarlaines Regiment, Franklin County, called into service to suppress an insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania 1794.
