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.
Claim for extra compensation; $815 to Doctor Charles Brown for attendance on sick Indians, and for rent of a house to treat sick Indians, with an extra charge attending Indians during the Treaty of Greenville, as stated by agreements with Generals Wayne and Wilkinson. Simmons goes on to question whether the claim is sufficiently substantiated, especially since at the time Dr. Brown was on the military pay rolls.
Account of commissions for receiving and paying monies from the Department of War filed with previously received accounts. Accounts cannot be examined because Secretary of War was undecided on amount of commission.
Answer to McHenry's request on Crafts account. Total amount of disbursement: $53617.81, Crafts charged a commission of $1072.35. Details of disbursement included.
Encloses a copy of the Attorney General's opinion on the case of the captain of the 4th Regiment - whether he should be delivered to a municipal court in Maryland. McHenry considers Lee's opinion a sound one.
Encloses copy of letter from the Maryland governor. Comments on the unprofessional conduct of officers towards citizens. Reports charges for Captain Devon.
Abstract of bills drawn on the Secretaries of War and Treasury by John Harris, Public Storekeeper and Superintdendent of Tennessee, from 15 May 1795 to 31 December 1799.
A list of articles to be transported to John Wilkins and addressed to Major Isaac Craig in Pittsburgh: horseman's tents, common tents, knapsacks, orderly books, company books, foolscap paper; letter paper, ink powder, sealing wax, boxes of wafers, and quills.
Directs issue of clothing to John Wilkins Junior, Quarter Master General to Major Constant Freeman, for use by members of the 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers near Charleston, SC.
Routine correspondence concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline and routine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments.
Certification of payment; $53.62 to Lieutenant George Izard, Artillerists and Engineers and aide de Camp to Major General Alexander Hamilton, for traveling expenses, Charleston South Carolina to New York.
Accounts of William Crafts, Agent for the Department of War at Charleston, under examination. Simmons requests advice on the compensation allowed Crafts.
