Secretary Knox encloses a list of Invalid Pensioners to the Commissioner of Loans for Massachusetts. The pensioners were not paid by General Benjamin Lincoln from September 1789 to March 1790. Notes that the Supreme Court has decided against the validity of the adjudications of the judges of the Circuit Court in the the capacity of commissioners.
Howell instructs Steel to inform Mr. White that his account is to be settled upon the same terms of the wagons employed by Mr. Allison which it is hoped will be to Mr. White's satisfaction.
The Secretary of Treasury reports on the petition of John Edgar of Kaskaskias to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Edgar claims to have given gifts to various Indian tribes in Illinois Country, in order to pacify their hostility to white settlers moving west. Edgar claims that he should be compensated for the gift-giving, since it was essential to preserving the lives and property of American citizens. Hamilton says that the claim is inadmissible, since the expense incurred was of the mere will of the claimant. Hamilton adds that it would set a mischievous precedent, as other settlers would likely claim the same.
The Secretary of Treasury reports on the petition of George Fechem of Massachusetts to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The object of the petition is the settlement of three different claims against the United States. The first claim arises on a contract for a quantity of liquor; the second claim relates to expenses incurred; the third claim is for boarding and nursing a sick soldier.
The commissioner of loans for Pennsylvania informs the Secretary of the Treasury that the Secretary of War has sent to his office a list of the names and the sums to which the military invalids of Pennsylvania are entitled to six months of their annual pension.
Secretary Knox forwards a list of unpaid invalid pensioners to Massachusetts who were not been paid by General Benjamin Lincoln in 1790. Appleton is Commissioner of Loans for Massachusetts.
General Israel Chapin encloses the Buffalo Creek council proceedings to the Secretary of War. Present at the council were representatives from the United States and Upper Canada, along with the principal leaders of the Six Nations.
Ensign Levi McLean at Lancaster has been very successful in recruiting and applies for a further supply of clothing. Hodgdon is directed to pack up and send to Ensign McLean twenty suits of infantry clothing and twenty stands of arms and accoutrements. If knapsacks are in store, a supply of them should also be sent.
