Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Hamilton suggests that it may be expedient to notify the officers of the old infantry and artillery regiments that those officers who don't report themselves to the Secretary of War within four months of the notification will be presumed to have resigned their commissions.
Hamilton requests an opinion on whether it is legal to demand a writ of habeas corpus for a man duly enlisted as a soldier. [Refers to the case of a soldier named Edward Walker whose father requested his release from the army because he was 20 years old and therefore still a minor.]
Notifies McHenry (Secretary of War) that several large War Department bills are coming due and money needs to be placed in the Treasury to cover their payment
Freeman has received the payroll of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at West Point, including the officers' subsistance, and finds it to be correct. Captain Wadsworth's subsistence has been deducted from the abstract.
Certification of service and settlement of pay of $82.17 for Lieutenant William Gilmore, late of the Georgia line. Note says that the account was settled some years ago.
