Certification that $121.74 is due a detachment of the 1st Regiment of Infantry at West Point under the direction of George Fleming, military storekeeper of the Ordnance Department, being the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates for May and June 1798.
Captain Truxton enumerates the expenses of the Frigate "Constellation" and discusses such matters as the potatoes, furnished agreeable to an Act of Congress, that have been found to be rotten.
Pickering quotes a letter from General Washington arguing that, despite the inevitable opposition of General Pinckney, Hamilton should be given the office of Inspector General.
Dayton confirms receipt from Hodgdon of one hogshead containing public clothing in accordance with the invoice enlcosed in the letter of July 11, 1798.
Muster rolls enclosed, those written by new officers contain erroneous charges. No sightings of enemy ships, Truxtun to proceed to the southern coast of Georgia.
Hawkins has proceeded up the river, along with two commissioners from Georgia, and they are in agreement about his statement. They have found that some families are living on Indian land. Although they seem like decent people, he has told them that they cannot plant crops and that they should like to move come spring.
Certification that $135.39 is due Lieutenant Daniel Bissell of the 1st Regiment, the sum recovered from him by the Superior Court of Connecticut by a suit of law, being for the costs and damages for enlisting William Fisher, an apprentice to John Merriam.
Harris is authorized to deliver to the order of the Secretary of State nine-pound round, eighteen-pound round, six-pound bar, nine-pound bar, twelve-pound bar, and eighteen-pound bar shot to be replaced or paid for out of the funds for the affair of the Barbary.
The June pay roll for West Point included two soldiers who were past their service time, but who have been detained due to a court martial. The decision of the court martial was sent to the Secretary of War in May but there has been no reply. Freeman believes it is proper to pay them as they were detained as soldiers.
Copy of bond for holding galley at St. Marys Georgia. States that John Patterson, shipwright, James Seagrove merchant, both of St. Marys, and William Hunter, merchant, Savannah, are bound to United States for $3000.
Washington expresses his wishes regarding the leadership and organization of the provisional army. Of the three major generals immediately below Washington in the chain of command, Hamilton, as Inspector General, is ranked first.
