Requested draft and balance have been paid. Has received balance due Holt from the accountants, which shall be sent next month. Noticed Holt's ability to act with caution.
Account of saltpetre and powder due the public by Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Miller. More information can be obtained from the purveyor, who was the principal agent in the transaction.
Certification that payment of $122.72 is due Major Thomas H. Cushing, 1st Regiment of Infantry and Inspector for pay, subsistence, and forage for February 1799.
Certification of payments; $97 pay Private John Watkins in Captain Greatons Company, 2d Sub Legion, following time he was taken prisoner by Indians; includes a reasonable allowance for him to return to his home town.
Certification of payments; $64.17 to estate of Captain Donald Grant Mitchell, 1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers for pay and subsistence, payable to father, Stephen Mitchell, heir.
Enclosure: Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Stevens stresses the need to keep the engineer, Mr. Mangin, employed since there is still much to be done respecting the works on Governors Island, the measures of defense yet to be erected, and the fortifications of the port.
Reports that in December 1797, 7 kegs of sundry stores for Silas Dinsmore, agent to Cherokee Nation, sent by public store through David Henley in Knoxville. Dinsmore received the shipment but no invoice, so his account has not been credited. Requests direction on how to charge stores for public account.
Certification of payments; Elias Langham, military storekeeper for disbursements made in Military Store Department, Shepherds Town Virginia [West Virginia].
Certification of payments; Private John Nugent, detachment of Infantry stationed at Fort Niagara, New York under command of Captain Alexander Thompson.
Certification of payments; $665.50 to Captain Thomas Lewis of 3d United States Regiment, for recruiting, pay, subsistence, and extra duty for the late Major General Anthony Wayne.
