Notification that Samuel Fisher delivered letters, noted specifically packets marked D and E containing several thousands of dollars addressed to Caleb Swan. Packets to be forwarded to Swan via D. Bissel. Packets sent forward with escort. Craig forwarded pay and muster rolls for several officers/detachments mentioned by name with dollar amounts.
"I hearby enclose my accounts current with the United States for the incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of War in the State of Georgia commencing the 1st of April and ending the 31st day of December 1793, balance in my favor being one thousand nine hundred and seven dollars 76/100 with the several vouchers in support of same."
President Washington has instructed Secretary Knox to communicate to Congress, in confidence, the dispatches from Major General Anthony Wayne dated October 17 and November 12 of the same year.
Secretary Hamilton informs Secretary Knox that no general Instructions have gone from the Treasury to the Collectors relative to the purchase of the lands on which fortifications might be erected. Encloses a memorandum of all the cases in which cessions and purchases have been made. The treaty for the purchase of the land on which the fortifications are erecting at Baltimore has been suspended.
Requests money to pay Terrence Reilly for artillerist clothing and blankets. Inquires whether enclosed list of goods and prices fixed in the contract is acceptable.
By the President's order, Bartholomew Dandridge has returned to Secretary Knox the letters from Governor William Blount of Southwest Territory, to be copied for Congress.
Ensign Voss's accounts and vouchers are being returned because they are inadmissable in their current state. If it is necessary to advance monies, the persons receiving it should produce regular vouchers to the person who made the advance.
Enclosed is a copy of a report by the late Commissioner of Army Accounts on the claim of Doctor Baird which should provide the Committee of Claims the required information.
Refers to publication of John Jay's notes and the preference to remain silent for the Secretary of State. Refers to Congressional elections and the need for a majority in the Senate.
A form of a muster roll is enclosed so that Ensign Thompson can have musters taken to the last of this month (December), duplicates of which must be transmitted to the Accountant's Office before pay can be remitted.
Henry Knox encloses House of Representatives resolution regarding frigates. He asks Coxe about the state of materials and equipment which have passed under the Department of Treasury.
Colonel Pickering's speech to the Six Nations assembled at a Council held at Canandagua in which he urges them not to allow the Chain of Friendship to grow more rusty and possibly to become rotten and break off.
Hodgdon is asked to forward the amount of Colonel Henley's account as soon as possible since Ball needs the money. Hodgdon should also subscribe for Brown's papers and pay him out of the money drawn for Ball.
