Certification of payment; $42.50 balance due for retained rations to Lieutenant Colonel Jeremiah Mosher, Commander of Regiment of Lancaster County Militia ordered to suppress an insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania in 1794.
Certification of payment; $31.43 pay to Private Michael Haffa, deceased, in Captain Peter Shoemakers Company, 2d Regiment of Infantry, to be paid to Philip Haffa, brother and administrator to estate of Melichor Haffa.
Certification of payment; $70 to Lieutenant Calvin Morgan, Paymaster, 7th Regiment of Infantry, replacement of funds received by William Nicholson, deceased.
Closed examination of account for the supplies to troops at Fredericksburg, VA during 1799. Simmons suspended and deducted $1,236.22 1/2 from Heiskell's account due to differences in cost/balance. Account to stand suspended until reply received by Simmons.
William Simmons informs Edward Carrington that examination of Godlove Heiskell's account for supplies to troops at Fredericksburg, Virginia is closed. Balance against Heiskell of $46.56, which Simmons directed Heiskell to pay to Carrington. In account records, five bills for Dr. George French listed without receipts. Simmons reported amount in favor of the doctor who was to be paid by Carrington upon acquisition of necessary receipts.
Accounts for medicine and attendance to troops at Fredericksburg, VA received from Mr. Heiskell. Examined by two disinterested physicians and deductions were taken. Remaining sum paid to Dr. French by Edward Carrington.
Assures Hamilton that the appointment of Col. Ogden to the post of Deputy Quartermaster General is judicious but it should be noted that if the Quartermaster is competent, the appointment of a deputy may not be necessary.
Phelps and Sanford enclosed bill related to the storage and maintenance of arms and clothing for U.S. They were uncertain on how to charge the government for their services and therefore requested guidence.
Enclosed letter from Maj. Rivardi regarding clothing for troops at Niagara, discussed having a quartermaster at each post to handle expenses and settlement of accounts. Details on different quartermaster's roles. Requested that Rivardi furnish Simmons with the appropriate vouchers for settlement.
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.
Craig discusses the implications of the Quartermaster General's refusal to admit the accounts of the Ordnance Department. The QMG says that since has no superintendance of that department, it would be improper for him to admit accounts of expenditures arising under it. Craig asks Hodgdon's assistance in getting the Secretary of War to pay the monies due armorers and the ordnance department.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers and concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline.
