Miller has received the $100 advanced to Mr. Fisher together with the $500 paid him on Colonel Wilkins' draft. Fisher says that the draft was one that a General gave him to pass to Hodgdon and Captain Vann corroborates the idea.
Transmittal of abstracts for the disbursement of cash in Quarter Master, Ordnance, Indian, and Hospital Departments and for James O'Hara, contractor, accompanied with vouchers.
Routine correspondence recommending individuals for Army and Navy appointments and and routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army recruiting.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
In addition to references to repairs at Fort Niagara and the people on boats passing the fort, Rivardi complains about overdue pay and and being afflicted by "the Ague" which will torment him until he can be transferred to another station.
Adams says he has only one possible objection to the proposed military campus (laboratory, powder house and warehouses) outside of Philadelphia: that the government is moving to the new city of Washington within the next year. Leaves this potential problem to McHenry's judgment; also forwards a recommendation of an officer for the Marine Corps.
"I have this moment received your letter of the 29th instant. I entirely agree with you on the subject of apprentices and shall instruct accordingly. Indeed I thought it was universally to be understood that they were not to be enlisted...The Court martial at West Point being a nullity it is my first impression that I can with propriety order another to try anew. This is not the case of a trail before a competent tribunal which would have rendered a second improper."
Certification of payment; $83.62 to Ensign William R. Boote, 1st Regiment of Infantry for balance due him on settlement of account, including pay and subsistence.
Simmons informs Creary of a disbursement of funds to the Branch Bank at New Port. These funds are at Creary's disposal for expenses related to fortifications.
