Certification of payments; $936 to detachment, 2d Regiment Artillerists and Engineers at Fort Pinckney under Lieutenant George Izard, pay and bounties.
Forwards correspondence, some concerning the Attorney General and some concerning prisoners currently held by the military units under General MacPherson.
St. Clair has informed McHenry that the proclamation of martial law has caused unease. McHenry encloses extracts from letters related to martial law in the territories.
McHenry discusses the imposition of martial law in Detroit which has resulted in complaints from Detroit's inhabitants. The President argues that martial law is necessary to prevent the sale of liquor to soldiers and General Wilkinson maintains that martial law has been in effect since 1785.
Since the party of troops ordered to assist the Surveyor General in marking the boundary lines designated by the Treaty of Greenville has refused to do so, McHenry orders that a military escort be provided to cover the surveyors while the run the required lines.
Routine correspondence concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline 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.
General Washington approves the division of Virginia into recruiting districts and subdistricts with the caveat that he cannot speak with precision because of the many new counties in the State. He warns that no officer in Virginia has received his commission which is causing great dissatisfaction.
