Whiton acknowledges that he has voluntarily enlisted to serve one year in the Marine Service, unless sooner discharged, according to the Act passed July 1st 1797 which provides a Naval Armament. The rules and articles of the Navy against mutiny and desertion have been read to him and he will be paid six dollars per month.
Certification that sixty dollars is due Lieutenant Henry H. Muhlenberg of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being his pay for November and December 1797.
Extract of a letter written to the War Department accountant explaining the War Secretary's power to determine the rules of compensation and allowance for service where no rule has been established by Congress, along with expenditures of a nature that are not to be made public. McHenry adds that the President will from time to time direct certificates to be made, which are to serve in lieu of vouchers ordinarily required in the settlement of accounts.
Letter, mentions delivery of goods and Colonel Butler's request for sheet iron to make one hundred kettles for the camp. Butler preferred his soldiers fabricate the kettles themselves.
Cited in Simmons to Henley, 01/26/1798.William Simmons explains to David Henley the authority of his position as well as how to enforce his accounting demands through the chain of command.
Cited in Simmons to Fitzgerald, 01/01/1798. William Simmons informs John Fitzgerald that his account has been forwarded to the Auditor of the Treasury.
Noted that issuing warrants for additional pay of clerks should be done by Sec. of Treasury, and that Simmons had no problems complying with the Secretary's wishes if he chose to act accordingly or differently.
Certification that $23.61 is due Thomas Flinn, late a private in Captain Isaac Guion's Company, being his pay from January 1 to June 27, 1795, the day he was discharged per Abstract D No. 962.
Congress being in session, no appointments of commissioned officers can be made but by the President with advice and consent of senate. The men employed therefore cannot be considered eligible for pay provided by law. Also a discussion on the appointment of warrant officers and petty officers; the nature of their services must be known first. Suggest the crew number is excessive; the numbers are higher than frigate United States. Asks about pay for the Marines and Seamen and when the complement of both can be completed.
Abstracts of payments made by David Henley agent of the Department of War in the state of Tennessee for services performed and for other contingent expenses arising in the Quarter Masters Department from 01/09/1798 to 06/14/1798.
Williams Simmons requests an advance of monies from the Comptroller of the Treasury, John Steele. Simmons is requesting the money to pay the salaries of War Department staff.
