Certification that $100 is due Edmund H. Quincey, Superintendent of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, being his salary for January through March 1798.
Cole is offered the job as the new clerk at the navy yard in Baltimore. Replaces Isaac Garretson. Is considered reputable for the job according to naval agents Joseph and Samuel Sterrett. Compensation $400 per year. If job accepted, Isaac Garretson will deliver public property. Take measures to protect property from theft. Further guidance forthcoming.
Informs Simmons that he has received the money for the pay of the marines on the Navy frigate U.S.S. Constellation which money he will pay to Lieutenant Tripplett. Cover letter for receipts from Lieutenants Dyson and Shoemaker for monies paid to them.
The Secretary at War informs Ensign Boote that Captain Edward Miller has been directed to proceed from Middletown, Connecticut to Pittsburgh, by way of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Boote is given instructions for meeting Miller.
Wilkinson informs Hamilton that he is arranging with the contractors to supply provisions to the surveying party that will mark the line of demarcation established by the Treaty of Greenville. He is anxious to begin sales in the national domain below the Big Miami River.
Certification that $210.30 is due a detachment of recruits at Wilmington North Carolina under the command of Capt. Griffith McRea [McRee], being the pay of himself for January through March 1798 and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates for March 1798.
Simmons points out that Major Tousard is using one driver for two teams of horses yet Colonel Mentges is paying him for the hire of two drivers. Colonel Mentges asserts that he has made this impropriety known to the Secretary of War.
Thompson and Humhreys are to examine a ship called Two Friends and report on its age, the number of guns it can carry, the state of the hull, mast, yards, rigging, and sails, and give their opinion on its fitness as a vessel for war. They should also state any alterations, repairs, or articles needed for the vessel to be ready for sea, and the time and expense needed for the alterations, repairs, and articles.
Request to examine vessel "Two Friends" for fitness as vessel of war. Examine mast, rigging; determine number of guns she can carry. State the alterations, repairs and articles required to fill her up.
The clothing and stores have arrived and are agreeable to the invoice although the bayonets are without scabbards. Apparently a mistake was made in preparing them for shipping.
In addition to recommending Washington Carmichael for a lieutenancy in the Army, Denny assures McHenry that very few in the countryside have regard for the French during the ongoing controversy [Quasi-War].
