Certification that $153.02 is due Ensign William R. Boote and the recruits under his command at New Brunswick, New Jersey being his and their pay for December 1797 and January 1798.
Certification that $544.45 is due to Joseph Cranch, being the amount of his account for repairing and cleaning arms and finding materials for the same at the post of West Point through January 1798.
Certification that $10.07 is due Corporal Joel Slack, late of Lieutenant Henry Muhlenberg's detachment of Artillerists and Engineers, being his pay from January 1 to February 19, 1795 , following the date of his discharge.
Certification that $57.40 is due Sergeant William McIntire, late of Lieutenant Robert Rowan's detachment of Artillerists and Engineers, being his pay from January 1 to September 6, 1797, following the date of his discharge.
Certification that $265.87 is due Major Thomas Cushing of the Army of the United States, being for his pay, subsistence, and forage for October through December 1797.
Document, Reply of President Adams to Little Turtle. President thanks the Great Spirit and has seriously deliberated on what Little Turtle has said. Is satisfied with sentiments expressed respecting treaty with General Anthony Wayne. Discusses difficulty of altering boundaries. Mentions Treaty of Greeneville. President will write to Governor of Territory, General St. Clair, to put a stop to the illegal marking of land at Post Vincennes. Discusses murder of Indian chief, White encroachment, Indian stipend as per treaty, establishment of trading houses, husbandry and farming, William Wells as candidate for agent to Indians. President laments the introduction of whiskey to Indians.
Certification that $96.25 is due Thomas Hughes, being for the blacksmith work done to the gun carriage at the garrison at West Point for October through December 1797.
Butler expresses approval of the executive's appointment of commissioners to hold a treaty with the Cherokee Indians. They will be able to make a report on on the lands which the United States may claim. Butler argues that these lands are not worth contending for since all the valuable lands in Tennessee have been covered by warrants. He laments of the share of trouble he has had in managing the people that have been removed from Indian land.
McDermott has dispatched a messenger to Georgia so as to obtain any of his vouchers that may be there and will be in Philadelphia by March 25th to effect a final settlement of all of his accounts.
Certification that $191.47 is due to Private Jonah Rogers, late of Captain John Buell's Company of the 2nd Sub Legion, being the balance of his pay from the date of his enlistment to November 4, 1791, the day he was reported as killed, and for his pay from November 4, the day he was taken prisoner by the Indians, to July 2, 1796, the day he was delivered from captivity at Fort Wayne.
Among the many topics discussed using his typically impenetrable handwriting, Sargent mentions a rupture in the settlements along the Mississippi and a probable coalition of French, Americans, and Indians above the Ohio.
Judge Rattoone advised on depth of channel in Perth Amboy. Truxtun gave additional justification for the use of Amboy as a port for both commercial and military ships.
