Harris is asked to deliver 150 pairs of sergeants' linen overalls for the use of the Navy Department to the order of Israel Whelan, Purveyor of Public Supplies.
Simmons notifies McRea [McRee] that he will be receiving $1300 to be paid to George Mackenzie for erecting a blockhouse on Fort Johnson, pursuant to a previous contract. Simmons request that he transmit and account for the money and related receipts.
Dexter admonishes Hodgdon because military stores and ordnance are not in store that are needed in Detroit and Niagara. Therefore, they should either be purchased or fabricated. He wants a return of those articles mentioned in the requisitions that are not in the store and the best and speediest means of supplying the deficiency.
This General Order assigns 28 Captains to specific battalions within the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers and designates their stations and Commanding Officers. However, no change from their present positions will made except by special order.
The two thousand dollars, sent in four post notes of five hundred dollars each, should have come to hand if they were routed through Boston. Williams is apprensive that they may have been stolen and recommends checking with the bank to stop payments should they have been presented for that purpose.
In responding to objections to accounts, Wilkins notes a lack of clarity regarding certain principles on scope and scale of authority of the Quarter Master General, under what conditions he may make purchases, and the nature of his military appointment which puts him under orders of the commanding general.
Harris is asked to deliver the designated clothing and accoutrements to Captain William McRea at Fort Mifflin for the use of Captain Fry's Company, currently under marching orders.
Certification of payment; $221.32 to Doctor James Graile for inoculating sundry soldiers of the United States Army, and for medicine and attendance while sick.
Enclosed is an estimate of the probable amount of expenditures for the year 1801.The expected two thousand dollars has not arrived. Mr. Lyman seems to be getting better.
Because of his care, diligence, and efforts in preventing the books from getting into a state of arrearage, Wilson is soliciting an augmentation in his salary. Others whose duties are less arduous receive one thousand dollars per annum while he receives only seven hundred dollars.
Because the clothing for the staff has not been received, the Major and the Quartermaster have been obliged to procure their own clothing. Therefore, money should be forwarded instead of clothing and receipts for the clothing will be furnished.
Letter from Major Jonathan Cass to William Simmons, War Department Accountant. Major Cass is father to future prominent political figure, Lewis Cass. Citation only.
