Simmons confirms that Hale's receipts for bounties paid have come to hand. Simmons also indicates that payment on these claims will be delayed until appropriations are passed by Congress.
Certification that $145.85 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 March 1798.
Certification of service and settlement of pay for John Holly, late private and artificer in Capt. Lt. John Bryant's company of Massachusetts Artillery.
Simmons informs Boote that his muster and pay rolls have arrived with receipts for bounties paid. Simmons indicates that payment will be delayed until appropriations are passed by Congress.
Receipt of payment to Sturgis for delivery of dispatches by riding express from Shippensburg to Pittsburg to Philadelphia and back to Shippensburg per agreement with William Rippey of Shippensburg. Brigadier General Wilkinson notes that dispatches came from Secretary of War and returned with the general's answer.
Gibbs notes that there is live oak timber and white oak ship timber in his March return that was not listed in previous returns. In clearing out the dock this timber was discovered under the mud. The receipt for the iron kentledge is forwarded but only one out of three anchors since Captain Nicholson has condemned the other two.
Certification that $49.55 is due Lieutenant Robert Lee, Adjutant and Quartermaster 2nd Sub Legion, being for his pay and forage from July 7, 1795, the date of his appointment, to August 23, following the date of his furlough conforming to the opinion of the Attorney General of June 27, 1797.
Certification that $120 is due Claude P. Pourcheresse, being his salary as Assistant Military Storekeeper at Springfield Massachusetts from December 1797 through March 1798.
Harris is directed to have the military stores on the enclosed list transported in the safest and most expedient manner to the frigate "Constitution'" anchored at Boston. He is asked to report the articles on the list that are located in the public stores.
