Pay roll received, Howell mentioned in last letter that Bissell omitted money, Bissell supposed a difference in settlement. Bissell enclosed sum under cover to the Secretary of War.
Holt has established a public guard at New London Virginia and encloses duplicates containing numbers, rank and time of militia service. Asks for payment for troops. Encloses commissary account.
Communication from the Oneida Sachems and Warriors to Timothy Pickering (addressed as Konnehsut) Board of Commissions. Sachems ask that Pickering hear their voices. They relate that their forefathers lived in ignorance; the people of the great waters extended their charity and sent missionaries among them who proclaim good tidings to their ears. At length was sent Samuel Kirkland and Mr Crosby; Indians came to forsake the old path and follow the new. But when the dark clouds of the Revolutionary War came their father Crosby left, followed by Kirkland. The Sachems say that they then returned to their old ways of life, while viewing the desolation of their town with sorrow. Kirkland returned to visit and said he had no salary and could not live among them. They ask that Pickering write back. Signed by the Sachems and Warriors of Oneida Nation.
Nicholson announces that the price for his two houses at the corner of Chestnut and Tenth Streets is eight thousand pounds cash. The lots are large and back up to George Street. The stables and coach houses are constructed so as to be easily converted to three dwelling houses.
Cabinet meeting concerning the resolution of the Senate calling for the correspondences between Gouveneur Morris and Edmund Randolph. Morris was U.S. ambassador to France and Randolph was Secretary of State. Knox intimated that no part of the correspondence should be sent to the Senate; Randolph intimated that parts of the correspondence which President Washington thinks "improper" should not be sent.
Obserevations are transmitted regarding that part of the Act of Congress of 30th April 1790 that applies to officers' rations which are permitted to be allotted in either rations or money.
Enclosed is the duplicate of an abstract of pay, in the amount of $459.10, due to four additional Scouts employed in Westmoreland County for five months in 1792.
The War Department Accountant transmits to the Secretary of the Treasury some observations on that part of the Act of Congress of April 30, 1790, respecting officers rations.
