Enclosed armourers accounts, results from its examination will be communicated. Mentioned the return of Capt. Barry who could only report that U.S. commissioners were respectfully received.
Sec of War gave answer to Simmons on questions related to Mackey's accounts by which Simmons discharged Mackey from all responsibility from warrants issued to Perkins and Brindby. Warrant for $190.00 was decided in favor of William Small and Mackey was found responsible for his miscalculations in pay of Small.
Rice contends that Harry Collins, enlisted by Lt. Springs and employed by him as a servant in his family, has no justification for the discharge he has requested.
Mentioned the forwarded arrangement proposed by Col. Butler for the completion of his regiment and the travel of detachments to meet Gen. Wilkinson, received Hamilton's changes to the arrangements. Provisionally appointed Capt. Beatty as Division Quartermaster, will require necessities and money for those expenses.
Pinckney has, at Hamilton's request, conducted experiments on the length of a pace and has concluded that the present step of two feet is a more natural pace for a man of medium height.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Certification of payment; $89.44 Edmund Winchester, Contractor of Boston for materials purchased for repairing barracks at Castle William Island, previously rejected, having been purchased without approbation of Secretary of War, admitted in consequence of orders from General Hamilton.
Certification of payment; $105.73 to John Foncin, compensation as engineer for erecting fortifications in defense of Baltimore Town and Harbor, agreeably to his appointment by the President of United States.
Simmons clarified his previous letter to McHenry regarding the increase in salaries of clerks in his Office. Simmons requested McHenry have approbations currently in Congress extended to clerks of Office of War Department.
The salaries of Chief Clerks to department Secretaries should be higher than those of any branch of a department. The nature of their business and the confidence in them justifies their higher salaries.
The reasons stated by John Mackey, paymaster and storekeeper for the armory at Harpers Ferry, for the compensation he allowed Mr. Shepherd for superintending the canal convinces McHenry that a man of character qualifed for the task could not have been procured on lower terms. The compensation therefore should be approved.
