Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Certification of payments; $12.50 to Lieutenant Henry M. Muhlenberg, 1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers, stage hire for self and baggage from Philadelphia to West Point.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Hamilton announces that, as Inspector General, he is now the head of the recruiting service and instructs Pinckney on the organization of three southern states into recruiting districts and sub-districts.
Hamilton thanks PInckney for his remarks on the planned military school and expresses alarm at the rumors regarding Pinckney's being shot at Charleston.
Receipt for shipment of clothing, arms, and military stores shipped for Fort McHenry on board the Schooner Sally; came safe to hand and articles correspond with invoice, but quantity falls short of what is needed. Includes account between the US and Albert Coffin, master of the schooner.
Reports contemplation of new modes of doing public business for more regular and prompt attention to accounts. Effort to immediately charge Quartermaster General for supplies, to be reported quarterly, biennially, or annually. Recommends appointment of Commissary of Public Stores with assistants, as well as apothecaries to deal with charges to medical departments, and Indians who charge their tribes. Outlines a charge of command with heads and principles in each department providing full account of all expenditures. All purchases to be made by the Purveyor and delivered to the store keepers. Requires invoices and receipts for all purchases for the proper accounts. Encourages reports of quarterly returns. Requests a clerk to maintain all reports.
Informs Ensign Boote that the Accountant's Office has received his letter enclosing receipts for the hire of musicians. Mentions Nicholas Fish, Supervisor of New York.
Responds to a request to record the events of a conversation in his office from the previous summer with Tracy, McHenry, and Mr. Lee, Attorney General. Comments were made about military appointments, with objections by Mr. Mason of Mr. Blackburn.
Reports correspondence with the President in regard to the grand jury of Brunswick County and encloses a response. Refers to congressional act authorizing the President to raise a provisional army. Writes of authorization of state militia and federal troops and volunteers. Mentions Smith's recommendations.
Mackey discusses many matters but focuses on Elias Langham whom he desribes as a "violent Democrat" and charges that Langham had distributed several public muskets to the democratic cause.
