Among other matters, Hodgdon instructs Ames to sell all useless gun barrels, ramrods, and bayonets, but if there is any possibility of public use they should be retained. Money earned from the sale of such items should be credited to the public.
Certification that $19.35 is due David Royal, late a private in Captain Thomas Pasteur's Company 1st Regiment of Infantry, being his pay from 1 November 1797 to 26 March 1798, the date his enlistment expired.
Certification that $73.55 is due a detachment of recruits at New Brunswick New Jersey under the command of Ensign William R. Boote, being his and their pay for July 1798.
Certification that $55.20 is due David Hale, late a lieutenant in the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being for his pay and subsistence from 1 May to 9 June 1798, the day of his resignation, and the premium due him for enlisting two recruits.
Certification that $81.18 is due Lt. Samuel C. Vance of the 3rd US Regiment, being his pay for July 1798, his subsistence at Pittsburgh for June and July, and the bounty for reenlisting one soldier.
Certification that forty dollars is due Capt. Staats Morris of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being the balance of his pay for May through July 1798.
Informs Ensign Boote that the Accountant's Office has received his letter enclosing muster and pay rolls for himself and his recruits, along with three receipts for bounties paid.
The fifty boxes for the muskets will be finished soon and a thousand muskets will be cleaned and packed up for transportation. The carriages in the store need to be overhauled since the bands of the hubs are loose and need to be made smaller. Some of the older carriages need to be painted. Bryant asks permission to have them repaired so they will be ready to be transported on the next vessel bound for Portland.
Acknowledges receipt of letter. Discusses General Perkins; accounts; vouchers; journals he forwarded with expenditures. Discusses book keeping procedures. Discusses how being situated in Indian country necessitates taking measures in case papers and accounts are lost.
Hawkins is writing to Simmons with regard to the report of the commissioners appointed to mark the boundaries. He also questions the draft vouchers and the bi-yearly settlement of accounts.
