Certification that $48.52 is due Private Thomas Brian, late a waiter and soldier of the Company of Captain Benjamin Price of the 4th Regiment, being his pay from April 1, 1794 to June 3, 1795, the day his service expired.
Certification that $138.10 is due Lieutenant Daniel Bissell of the 1st Regiment, being his pay from January through April 1798 and the balance of his subsistence for the same period.
Certification that $34.26 is due Private Jacob Strawhover, late of Capt. DeButt's Company, being his pay from August 1, 1797 to April 17, 1798, the day his service expired.
Announces purchase and preparation of the ship Ganges. Presidential appointment as navy captain, to take command of the ship. Requested to get the ship to see within a week with the necessary improvements and officers and staff. Requests that each seaman be examined by the surgeon. Outlines specific responsibilities and records.
Suggests Fort Washington or Cincinnati for desired quarters as a strategic location along the Mississippi River. Refers to stipends for Indians destined for Fort Wayne.
Enclosed are the returns of the Navy Yard at Boston for April 1798. Two iron pots have been returned but they are omitted because they are not the property of the United States having been loaned to the Naval Agent by Jeffrey & Russell.
Cited in Hodgdon to Fleming, 05/14/1798. There are no ship carriages for the ten four-pounder iron guns. The four twelve-pounders will be sent in the first available vessel but there are no carriages to send with them. Only one iron 24-pounder is available and that one is damaged but if excellent iron 18-pounders will suffice, Craig should be informed whether seacoast or garrison carriages should be sent with them.
Major Craig has been notified that two teams will start for Pittsburgh on Monday with a load of tents. During this busy season it was not possible to obtain teams that would proceed instantaneously at a lower price or weight so the urgency of the matter prompted Bedinger to act as he did.
Lt. Dayton is confused regarding whether his money will be enclosed upon receipt of his account or whether it will lay in Simmons' office until the appropriations are made.
Certification that $8.77 is due William Miller, late a saddler and soldier in Captain James Taylor's Troop of Dragoons, being his pay from June 1 to July 4, 1795, following the day he was discharged.
Certification that $872.08 is due the Officers, Petty Officers, Seamen, Ordinary Seamen, and Marines of the Frigate "United States", commanded by Captain John Barry, being their pay for April 1798; to be paid to William McRea, Lieutenant of Marines.
