Simmons received letter with enclosures, account to be examined. P.S. Simmons repeated his request for the receipt roll for the pay of Leonard's detachment.
Nourse requested estimate of expenditures of military department for volunteer cavalry and infantry to suppress insurrection in Northampton County, Pennsylvania in 1799, Simmons replied with details. Total amount: $26,424.94. Amount did not include compensation for regular troops.
Asks the Attorney General whether it is constitutional for the military to deliver Capt. Devin of the 4th Regiment - who had recently gone from Maryland to Tennessee - back to a municipal court in Maryland.
Simmons should state the amount of the expenditures of William Craft as agent for the Department of War, and if Craft has exhibited a charge for his services, its nature and amount.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Enclosed is an Act which enacts a reorganization in which the present Corps of Artillerists and Engineers will hereafter be composed of a Regiment of Engineers, a Regiment of Horse Artillerists, and a Regiment of Foot Artillerists.
Hamilton regrets the dismemberment of the School of the Navy from the rest because he feels that all schools should be united under the Director General. Discussed general ideas of what should be taught at the School, and the differences b/w McHenry and Hamilton's ideas on the purpose of the institution. Enclosed, "An Act for establishing an Academy for Instruction relative to the Military and Naval Service of the United States."
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Smith explains that he would never leave the cantoonment for twelve hours without Hamilton's permission but has an urgent need to see him on Monday at Noon.
Routine correspondence recommending individuals for Army and Navy appointments and routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.
Urgently required to visit Hamilton, the nature of which timing did not allow for previously obtaining official permission from Hamilton. Believed his reasons for visiting would excuse his lack of protocol.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Certification of payment; $73.37 to Phineas Emans, contractor at Litchfield Connecticut, for rations, quartermaster and hospital stores furnished recruits 13th Regiment under command of Lieutenant Waugh.
Certification of payment; $99 to Captain John McClallen, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers for expenses while attending court martial in New York and expenses from New York to Albany.
