Simmons certifies that $453.41 is due Ensign Robert Torrans and the men under the command of Captain Michael Kalteisen at Fort Johnson in South Carolina, being their pay for June through August 1795.
Simmons certifies that $25.78 is due Captain Michael Kalteisen being the balance of his account for recruiting, payments to his men, contingencies, and his own pay to October 31, 1795.
Simmons certifies that $265.09 is due George Gillaspy, Surgeon's Mate of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at Charleston South Carolina, being his pay, subsistence, and forage from June through October 1795 and travel expenses from Philadelphia to West Point New York;
Believed the season was too advanced to send dispatches for fear of boats being caught in ice. Just received word that clothing and hospital stores arrived for troops at Fort Washington.
Simmons certifies that $63.79 is due Josiah Fox for his expenses on a journey from Philadelphia to Norfolk Virginia, while there, and returning to the city, being employed as a temporary constructor of the Frigate building at Gosport, Virginia
Talbot's plan to put the planks for the frigate in salt water is a sound one. Caution that there are any worms in the water which could cause damage. The mode of securing it, Talbot and the constructor should attend to.
Hodgdon is directed to have transported to Charleston, South Carolina a number of cannon and equipage for the use of the garrison at that place. Whichever of these articles are in the magazine at Charleston, Hodgdon should prepare an order for the Governor of South Carolina to be delivered to the order of Captain Kalteisen.
Requests a report on the state of the fortifications at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with an estimate of any remaining costs or materials required to complete them. Pickering desires this information in part so that he may include it in his report to Congress.
Pickering approves of Talbot's plan for preserving the planks in salt water and states that he assumes there are no worms in the water to injure the wood.
Numbered answers to questions Harrison asked in his last letter. Estimated cost of supplies that were lost by the contractor and that the government will provide transportation from Fort Washington to Fort Hamilton but no further. Horse were employed for transport.
Simmons certifies that $3,883.80 is due the Militia and Scouts of Washington County, Territory of the United States, for their protection of Marietta, Bellepre, Waterford, and Gallipolis between October 11, 1794 and September 1, 1795.
Simmons certifies that seventy dollars is due Sergeant James Kennedy and Sergeant Charles M. Leeniele of Captain Michael Kalteisen's Company of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being their pay for June through October 1795.
Simmons certifies that $72 is due John R. Lynch, Surgeon's Mate in the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being the balance of pay and forage due him for service up to October 31, 1795.
Simmons certifies that $311.62 is due Captain Uriah Springer in the Legion of the United States, being his pay and subsistence for May through October 1795.
Pickering, currently serving as both Secretary of State and Secretary of War, discusses his reluctance to accept the office of Secretary of State on a permanent basis but he feels it is his patriotic duty to do so. [A confidential letter.]
