Captain Lyman's trunk received, but Lyman did not make any provision to pay for the receipt. Therefore Craig paid for its delivery and now enclosed receipt for reimbursement.
Acknowledges receipt of the muster and pay rolls of Captain Russell Bissell and the accounts of pay of Lieut. Charles Martin and Ensign Nicholas Rosecrantz that will be credited on the books of the War Department accountants office
Acknowledges receipts for bounty paid to recruits. Explains accounting procedures for bounty pay and the reenlistment of "old soldiers" (men who previously served in the Army). Advises Marschalk that he will receive pay authorized him as a deranged Captain from Nicholas Fish, federal supervisor at New York.
Advises Fish that he will receive money from the Treasurer of the U. S. that he is to pay to Lieutenant Andrew Marschalk for his pay and subsistence owed to him as a deranged officer (demoted, apparently in an Army reorganization)
Notification that his account for pay has been approved and that he will receive his pay from Joshua Wentworth, federal supervisor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Advises Wentworth that he will receive money from the Treasurer of the U. S. that he is to pay to Edmund H. Quincy, Superintendent of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Navy Yard for his salary.
Certification that $421.84 is due Andrew Marschalk, late a captain in the Army of the US, being six months pay and subsistence allowed him by the the Act of Congress of March 3, 1797.
Certification that $100 is due Edmund H. Quincy, Superintendent of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth New Hampshire, being his salary from April through June 1797.
Henry Wells, a pupil of Dr. Buchanan and Moale, wants an appointment in the medical line on board the frigate being built at Baltimore. Wells has been studying medicine for four years and is well suited to act as a Surgeon's Mate. Any act of friendship to Mr. Wells will be remembered with gratitude.
Acknowledges receipt of a receipt roll that will be credited on the books of the War Department accountants office. Mentions "subject of the team hire" that is under review by the Secretary of War
Acknowledges receipt of muster and pay rolls for the West Point garrison. Requests a certificate signed by the Superintendent of Artificers attesting to the employment of the artificers.
Certification that twelve dollars is due Private John Martin of Captain Thomas Lewis's Company 3rd US Regiment, being his pay for April through June 1797.
