Hamilton is asked to place in the hands of the Treasurer $36,450 for the pay and subsistence of Genral Wayne's troops as well as $2,500.90 for the troops at Fort Pitt and $60,000 for the Kentucky Volunteers.
The War Department Accountant requests that Secretary Hamilton place $36,450 in the hands of the Treasurer for the pay and subsistence of troops under the command of General Anthony Wayne; a further sum of $2,500 for the troops at Fort Pitt; and finally, a sum of $60,000 for the Kentucky Volunteers.
It appears that the cartridge boxes contracted for with [Samuel] Tinsley are less in the bore of the wood than the pattern calls for although Tinsley claims that the wood has by some means been changed.
Reports questions about cartridge boxes ordered from Mr. Tinsley of Columbia, Virginia, which are smaller than the pattern provided. Tinsley insists that the pattern was altered. Requests conference with Capt. Thomas Holt to inspect cartridges.
The Commissioner of Loans for Pennsylvania informs Secretary Hamilton that he has received an order from Secretary Knox to pay Invalid Pensioners the sum of $8752 for the amount of their annual pension. Requests that Hamilton issue a warrant for that sum.
The Secretary of the Treasury [Alexander Hamilton] has requested a statement of the clothing sent forward to the western army during 1794, noting what was taken from the old stock in store and the number of suits needed to complete the supply for that army.
Due to the recent events surrounding a privateer vessel, President issued proclamation that ordered all privateer vessels now in port to be stripped of their weapons.
Explains that the government has suffered much embarrassment from illicit French privateers running from one American port to the next, effectively getting the asylum that was to be denied to them because of their illegality. Transmits the president's new order, that all these privateers be informed that if they enter American ports again they will be stripped of all their military equipment; asks that Huntington enforce this rule in Connecticut.
Circular letter from the War Department to the Governors of the States. Since Knox is absent, Hamilton is in his stead. He is directed by the President to write to the governors on the subject of French privateers fitted out in American ports, which are to be denied asylum except upon the condition of being dismantled of their military equipments. States that the conduct of some of these vessels is a "matter of real embarrassment and dissatisfaction," and has "placed the Government in the unpleasant situation."
Refers to militia detachment assembling in New Jersey to march against insurgents in Western Pennsylvania. Requests supplies and transportation be provided and to locate points of rendezvous.The militia of Pennsylvania and New Jersey are to assemble at Carlisle.
Requests information about garrisons, detachments, and army in western Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Northwest Territory, specifically about rations, supplies, and quartermasters for 1795.
