Capt. McRea is ordered to pay Samuel Meridith, Treasurer of the United States, the sum of $45.01 being the balance remaining in his hands from the pay of recruits and the recruiting service.
Refuses Hazard's claim for his service in a Rhode Island regiment because two persons of his name are listed as deserters and the other was settled with.
Hagner certifies that $54.80 is due Ensign George R. Chase, late of Captain William Buchanan's Company of Levies, being the balance of his pay from May 2 to Nov. 4, 1791, the day he was killed in action.
Hagner certifies that $112 is due Lieutenant William Willson and the men under his command at Governor's Island, New York, being his and their pay for July 1796.
Discusses the St. Croix dispute over the boundary line between British Canada and the United States. McHenry disagrees with Pickering's assertion that the British commissioner must fulfill certain preliminary conditions before arbitration.
McHenry advises that regular troops replace militiamen in frontier defense because it would offer more consistency to military operations and would "lessen that thirst for Indian land and plunder which is kept up by militia incursions into their country."
Letter, asks for terms regarding timber for Frigate. Letter includes a statement of masts, spars, planks and scantling wanted for use of the United States.
