Captain McMillen must be relieved as soon as possible from the Company of Artillery at Northampton County so that he can be available to superintend the laboratory intended for the production of draughts for cannon.
Current system requires returns of all quartermaster clothing and Indian stores received, issued, expended, and forwarded to all garrisons, forts, arsenals, and public stores. Reports tardiness of obtaining reports but expresses optimism in progress.
Reports that Captain Stoddart in Portland needs tents for his men and is concerned about warm weather and exposure to contagious disorders. Stoddart also requests extra clothing, promising to pay for them at contract price.
Certification of payments; $83 to detachment of Infantry stationed at West Point under direction of George Fleming, Ordnance and Military Storekeeper, West Point for the service of the Ordnance Department.
Certification of payments; $15 to Captain James Bruff, for expenses traveling from West Point to New York by order of Major General Alexander Hamilton.
Encloses a bill of lading of seventeen pieces of kentledge shipped on board Capt. Jackson's schooner "Weymouth" in the harbor of New York and bound for Philadelphia.
Rice explains that he awaits Colonel Brooks' assistance in arranging Massachusetts into districts and still has not nominated the rest of his regimental staff due to reasons already enumerated.
Hamilton observes that the Articles of War require that two thirds of the members of the Court must vote to convict in cases where the death penalty is inflicted. He presumes that was true in the trial of Sergeant Hunt and directs Morton to insert a clause in the trial proceedings stating that fact.
