Acknowledges receipt of regulations regarding barracks and regulations respecting certain supplies; respecting objects of special and extra expenses and regulations to be observed in delivery and distribution of fuel. These regulations will ease the business of department greatly.
Certification of payment; $41 to Lieutenant Nathaniel Leonard, 2d Regiment Artillerists and Engineers for services apprehending deserters from garrison at Fort Sumner, to be paid to Nathaniel F. Fosdick, collector at Portland Maine.
Certification of payment; $20 to Captain Benjamin Gibbs, 10th Regiment of Infantry for expenses incurred in pursuit of deserter William Bowen, from Bristol.
Warrant issued in favor of Jackson on account of the fortifications at Fort Independence on Castle Island which Jackson will receive from the Treasurer of the United States.
Gordon has talked to the owner and captain of the schooner "Juliana'" bound for the port of New Orleans. He has agreed to provide passage for Hodgdon's friends. Each of them must pay fifty dollars and their share of the stores. Mr. Stevens has arrived from Albany and agrees that the shot can be deposited at Governors Island.
Benjamin Cornwall and John Coles, both enlisted by Lt. Tobias V. Cuyler of the 12th Regiment, have complained that they have yet to receive the bounties that were promised upon enlistment. Recruits were paid in dry goods instead of money, but still request remaining sum to be paid in coin.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
