Certification that $106.21 is due Edmund H. Quincy, Superintendent of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth New Hampshire, being his salary for October through December 1797, and including Samuel Larkin's bill of stationery for said Navy Yard.
Harris is directed to deliver 25 short cartridges of two pounds each for 24 pounders to Lieutenant Mullowney for sealing the guns on the frigate "United States." Also needed are three sticks of port fire.
Mentions a detachment and the public's desire for education. Mentions the cause of the Paymaster General and business in Philadelphia. Refers to complaints about the farm.
Kirkpatrick is bringing his vouchers to Philadelphia which will enable him to make a final settlement of the comany's business. Provisions have been purchased for the troops by order of the Commander in Chief of the Army, He has found it necessary to draw on the Secretary of War for five thousand dollars.
Certification that $155.40 is due Francis Mentges, Inspector of Troops and Garrisons, being for bounties paid to recruits, premiums allowed, and amounts paid for attesting the recruits.
Captain Gee, whose sloop travels between West Point and New York, told Fleming that on his next trip he would bring the gun stocks. Unfortunately, because of the ice the stocks are still in New York. However, Mr. Smith intends to send them by land in good sledding which is to be preferredl since Mr. Crank needs them immediately.
