Since a certain number of Lyman's recruits have been ordered to West Point, they will receive their pay at that location and the rest will be paid as soon as the muster is received.
On the point near Portsmouth there are 17 cannons of 18" and 24" ball in good condition except as to carriages and apparatus, they belong to the state of Virginia and will doubtless be given up for the defense of the state.
General Richard Butler's widow - Maria Butler - is asked to transmit the deceased General's vouchers to the War Department so that the stoppages can be lifted and the General's pay transmitted promptly to her. Butler was killed during Arthur St. Clair's defeat in November 1793.
Instant measures are needed to mount iron cannon in Maryland as well as Norfolk, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina. Common workers may be hired at those places for this purpose. Hodgdon should prepare a plan with the necessary estimates without delay.
Proclamation issued by Washington's Cabinet forbidding Kentucky troops from invading Spanish territory, who the United States is at peace with. Proclamation delivered to Kentucky governor Isaac Shelby.
Responding to Hodgdon's inquiry, Hunts notes that there are no unoccupied buildings suitable for military stores in Trenton except for one owned by Robert Walnalittle and a bake house owned by Hunt.
