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• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• RE Organization of Individual Regiments

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments.

• RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
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  Delivery of Camp Kettles

  Orders to deliver camp kettles for recruiting party.

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  Letter, Citation only
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  Certification of payment; Lieutenant Peter M.V. Steuben, for medicine furnished and attendance to a company of 2d Regiment of Infantry at Easton, under command of Captain Peter Shoemaker

  Certification of payment; $148.92 to Lieutenant Peter M.V. Steuben, for medicine furnished and attendance to a company of 2d Regiment of Infantry at Easton, Pennsylvania under command of Captain Peter Shoemaker
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  Letter from the Accountant of the War Department

  Simmons informs Orne to expect payment from the Treasurer of the United States.
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  Delivery of Clothing

  Orders to deliver uniforms and blankets for Infantry company.
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  Office of Clothier General

  Until the office of Clothier General has been appointed, the Deputy Paymaster General will perform his duties.
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  Certificate in favor of John McGown

  McGown served the United States during the Revolutionary War, lost his property, and is a refugee of British provinces in Canada.
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  On the assignment of a Clothier General to the Western Army

  Copy of document from Alexander Hamilton to General Wilkinson. Hamilton says that until the office of Clothier General shall be appointed, his duties will be performed by the Deputy Paymaster General. In this capacity, all articles and returns of clothing will come from him. All returns of clothing will be addressed to him. Captain Samuel Vance, 3d Infantry Regiment, acknowledges receipt 16 December 1799 by signature of Colonel Hamtranck, at which time he began to act as clothier general.

• Pernicious Practice of Drawing Money and Rations on Account

  Even though he is not directly involved in military matters, Dayton emphasizes that the practice of drawing money and rations on account without regular rolls and returns is pernicious and ought not be continued after the current collections are complete. He wants Hamiton to know that he is anxious to serve under him.

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• No Other Wife but the Service

  North affirms Hamilton's assertion that a soldier should have no other wife than the service nor should he have children nor landed property. But, since he does have a wife and children, he will bring them with him to New York since to abandon them would not befit a soldier.

• RE Applications for Army Appointments and Promotions

  Routine applications for Army appointments and promotions

• Permanent Fortifications Require the Sanction of the President

  Hamilton espouses to McHenry the general principle that permanent fortifications, and the expenses attached, should not be undertaken without the sanction of the Executive. He stesses that he has never violated this principle but exigencies in the field, such as those faced by General Wilkinson, might require that it be temporarily ignored.

• RE Transfer of Army Units and Equipment

  Routine instructions concerning the transfer of Army units and equipment.

• RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.

• RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• RE Transfer of Army Units and Equipment

  Routine instructions concerning the transfer of Army units and equipment.

• RE Transfer of Army Units and Equipment

  Routine instructions concerning the transfer of Army units and equipment.

• RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.

• RE Transfer of Army Units and Equipment

  Routine instructions concerning the transfer of Army units and equipment.