Certification of payment; $74.75 to Captain Francis R. Huger, 2d Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers for travel expenses from New York to Washington, and expenses while detained at Washington, by order of Brigadier General Wilkinson.
This letter requests the following: that copies be provided of the Treatise on Fortification, lost in the fire; that muskets be repaired; and that the lost colors of the 3rd Regiment be replaced.
Enclosed is a copy of the General Order for November 30th which received the sanction of the Secretary of War before publication.The General left Washington for Pittsburgh and will probably spend the winter there.
James O'Hara has exhibited a charge against the United States for twenty barrels of pork delivered to John McDonald at Michilimackinac. He states that McConald was acting as Assistant Commissary at the time and that he became his agent on June 1st 1797. Simmons asks Hodgdon to confirm these facts.
Hagner received the lottery tickets, and some sums of money. General Pinckney has written that the appointed electors have pledged to vote for Jefferson and Burr in the presidential election.
Officers posted on the seaboard and frontier of Georgia are under the command of Lieut. Colonel Burbeck who is responsible for the returns of ordnance and military stores. The commanding officers of Fort Johnston in North Carolina and Fort McHenry in Maryland are also to take their orders from Burbeck. Lieut. Colonels Burbeck, Gaither, and Butler are authorized to constitute courts martial.
Letter, encloses abstract of sundry disbursements in the Quartermaster Department amounting to $38434.28, which includes transportation, United States laboratory, Indian annuities, fuel.
