Major Craig discusses the following items with Samuel Hodgdon: makes request to be sent block and tackle; informs that he provided boats for Mr. Ellicott; and advanced payment is made to the waggoner;
Enclosed is a general return of Quartermaster, Ordnance, and Hospital stores, with clothing and Indian goods received, issued, forwarded, and on hand at Pittsburgh from April 1795 to through March 1796, under the care of Isaac Craig, Deputy Quartermaster General.
Simmons certifies that $179.13 is due Lieutenant Henry Muhlenberg and the men under his command at Mud Island Fort, being his and their pay for August 1796.
The Secretary of War is about to send a detachment to Oswego. Articles such as iron and steel are wanted at Niagara so if there are any at West Point, they should be sent on. If not, they must be purchased.
Instructs the U.S. Army officer commanding in Tennessee in how to coordinate enforcement of the recent act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indians with the new Indian agent for the region, Silas Dinsmoor.
Instructs the presiding U.S. Army officer in Georgia (Major Constant Freeman) in his powers, relating to the sending of a new Indian agent to manage trade & intercourse with the Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians. These include the granting of permits to those doing business with the Indians, the sending of quarterly returns to report on all such people and their respective businesses, the relations and communications between Freeman and the new agent, Benjamin Hawkins, and the powers for punishing and prosecuting transgressors of the new regulations concerning the Indians.
In response to a resolution of Congress, the Treasury is preparing a statement showing the annual expenditures of the War Department through December 1795 in which the expense of the late Militia Army of the Western Expedition is shown. Nourse wants an account of the articles furnished the Militia by the War Department listed under appropriate headings.
