Hawkins explains the three enclosed letters to McHenry. He also expresses concern over the boundary line between the citizens of the US and the Indians.
Certification that $68.98 is due Charles Wolestoncraft, Lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers, being for his pay and subsistence from 8 June 1798, the date of his acceptance of the appointment, to 31 July 1798
Certification that $68.85 is due a detachment of the 1st Regiment of Infantry stationed at West Point under the direction of George Fleming, military storekeeper for the service of the Ordnance Department, being the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates for July 1798.
Certification that $12.39 is due the estate of Private John Weed, late of Captain Joseph Elliott's Company of Artillerists and Engineers, being his pay from October 1, 1796 to January 3, 1797, the day he died.
Hamilton argues that the policy of suspending emoluments for general officers until they begin active service will force them to remain inactive and therefore will prove to be contrary to the good of the service.
In his report, Swan lists the dates, names, and amounts of nineteen bills drawn by him on the Secretary of War from the 6th July to the 5th of August 1798.
If two month's pay is twelve dollars than the pay for twenty days must be $2.66. The deductions seem to have used the same principle in all cases so Dyson may have made an error in his payroll.
