Notes that the purveyor will purchase, and deposit with John Harris, goods amounting to one thousand dollars for the Choctaw Indians. Harris will release said goods, to be transported to Natchez by John Wilkins Jr.
Indian nations mentioned to receive annuities from the United States include Wyandots, Delawares, Ottawas, Chippewas, Miamis, Patawatomies, Shawanees, Creeks, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Eel River, Weeas, Piankishaws, and Kickapoos, with amounts (in value of goods) listed. Also lists any specific goods meant for the Indians -- if the value of the mentioned goods does not reach the total amount to be given to said tribe, Harris is to make up the difference with other goods; if the value of the mentioned goods exceeds the total amount to be given, Harris is to subtract from the goods. Instructions for packing and transport also given.
Whelen has received the letter respecting the muskets lately imported by the Secretary of the Treasury and requiring him to do what is necessary in the business. Whelen considers this kind of business out of his line but in this situation it seems so essentially necessary that he will comply with the request.
Rice addressed the current situation in Oxford as, "not dissimilar to our primitive New England fast days. I feel for many of my officers, they left lucrative & honorable employment. They can now neither return to them, nor place themselves in situations equally as eligible." Not believing in the orders to disband, he purchased a complete set of musical instruments. Now that his unit has been disbanded he has been told he is responsible for the cost of the instruments. He asks for advice on how to resolve this situation.
Swan receives warrant issued by Secretary of War for $2570 on account of salaries of clerks employed in his office, and for furniture, stationary, house rent and contingent expenses for year 1800, and arrearages of contingent expenses, 1799.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Hamilton asserts that it is very important in tactics to ascertain the proper length and speed of the step so he is causing experiments to be made in various quarters with this in mind.
Settlement of Johnathan Williams, provisional purveyor, yielded a credit to his account for his services rendered to military stores keeper, John Harris.
Mr. Stoddert, the new Secretary of War, has asked whether Hamilton or Gen. Pinckney has been directed by the President to thank the troops or say any clever things to them on announcing the order for their disbandment.
